NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Landing Successful

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We know what any church-going NASA employees will be praying for Sunday: a soft-ish landing.

Our new Mini Cooper-sized and experiment-laden super-rover, Curiosity, will hopefully touch down on the Red Planet this weekend for the biggest rover mission ever conducted there, to search for a biological history of the planet.

That is, if it doesn't auger in instead. Dubbed the "Seven Minutes Of Terror" by it's team, Curiosity's Martian landing is going to be one heck of a nail-biter, utilizing jettisoned heat shields, maneuvering rockets, a giant parachute and a self-sacrificing Sky Crane—all preprogrammed and computer-controlled. With a 14-minute lag in communications between the two planets, mission control on Earth won't know immediately if they succeeded or have just given Mars a new 2.5 billion dollar crater.

But NASA doesn't plan to bite their nails alone. The Space Agency has announced it will broadcast the historic event live in Times Square beginning 11:30 p.m. Sunday. To prepare and stay calm, maybe we can all watch the video about the mission ... narrated by William Shatner.

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[GUARDIANtrooper]

Of course it's successful, AREA 51 is not that far down the road compared to about 35 million miles out in deep space. NASA said, "We did it!" And you bozos, all together now, "Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!! What a bunch of fucking idiots...

[milaybhaiya]

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[Elitetank87]

We can prove that the voyager space probes are approaching the oort cloud by measuring the frequencies of their radio signals. We have pictures of Jupiter and Saturn from when they flew by in the early 1980's! Explain that then.

[Elitetank87]

Wait, do you like, legit honestly think that we haven't? We have landed on the moon!!! What will you think when we first put humans on mars in the 2030's. Eventually there will be no denying it when we set up permanent colonies on the moon and mars. Then what will you say? I don't think I have ever talked to someone with this radical of an idea before. I am amazed!

[Elitetank87]

What the hell is wrong with you? These scenes weren't filmed, this is all an animation. And we can send space craft 300 miles past our atmoshpere. We've done it dozens of times. You don't make any sence.

[erving25]

What happened to newsy news?!

[erichitz79]

lots of trolling going on here i see.

[asianpwnyourbigass]

what the fuck are you talking about

[ndjurgensen]

Church going NASA employees?