Don't Miss Curiosity Mars Rover Launch Live

[GreenEarth]

Tomorrow Saturday November 26, 9:02 am central time live

at

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

or here

http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl

watch as 8 pounds of plutonium and 900 kilograms of human ingenuity are blasted off into space to stare at some dust and rocks. In any case, better than some of the negative shit that has been lately going on in the news.

more info here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Science_Laboratory
http://io9.com/5862652/meet-curiosity--nasas-mars-science-laboratory

also read this interesting article on plutonium shortages threatening the future of NASA operations

http://news.discovery.com/space/as-...dwindles-esa-eyes-nuclear-energy-program.html

Mission Animation ( I like the part where the crane drops the rover, then kills itself )

Cool story NASA

 

[GreenEarth]

and it's done

EDIT: video of the launch, why you no embed?

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=122049781