Is anyone staying up for Curiosity tonight?Open thread for the landing here.

[crimson77]

It will be at 1:30est, I will be wide awake.

This made me misty:

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[Fumesucker]

1. I took a nice long nap a while ago so I'll be up and watching..

I Am Curious, Red Planet.

[southernyankeebelle]

2. Well am usually up. What is going on at that time?

[lunatica]

15. NASA is landing the rover named Curiosity on Mars.

It's not a given that it will succeed.

The OP has misspelled it which I will give a pass to.

[southernyankeebelle]

24. Wow thanks for informing us. I didn't know that. I will try and watch.

I remember the first time when our men landed on the Moon. My sister was in Italy visiting our reblatives and they were all around the TV watching the landing. We were in Maryland watching the landing. I keep thinking how great this country was and how proud I was to be an american. My relatives were patting my sister on the back congratulating her on our country's accomplishment and crying. Just think they were crying how proud of our country accomplishing something so great. It's to bad we lost our edge in the world. The country has become so greedy because our corporations don't take pride in the country.

[crimson77]

29. Thank you, I apologize.

[lunatica]

32. Hey

most misspelled words are spastic finger related as far as I'm concerned.

[Curtland1015]

3. What is Curiousity?

I don't think I've heard of it...

[crimson77]

6. A rover that is going to land on Mars

I hope they do some prospecting tonight, I don't know if it's just the landing.

[Curtland1015]

10. Ooooooooh... that is freakin' awesome!

I'm positive I won't be up for it, but I've DVR the sh*t out of it!

Thanks!

[Fumesucker]

11. They'll probably spend at least a week checking the vehicle out before it does anything much..

Given that it takes more than ten minutes in each direction for communications things tend to go slowly anyway..

[Fumesucker]

9. Largest and most complex Mars rover yet, it's landing on Mars tonight..

http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/08/05/usa-mars-idINL2E8J52DG20120805

[PearliePoo2]

4. hand raised! Me!

not so bad Pacific time.

[enlightenment]

16. Same here.

I'm excited!

[crimson77]

25. I would kill to live in LA again.

[Vincardog]

5. I will be watching

[agent46]

7. Me too!

I need a boost witnessing a noble attempt by humanity to do something constructive. I wish them all the best!

[Posteritatis]

8. Fully prepared for Monday morning zombieness here. (nt)

[RedStateLiberal]

12. Definitely!

I'm always up that late but I'm excited for this mission.

I assume NASA TV will be covering it live?

[annabanana]

13. Do you have their link? . .n/t

[RedStateLiberal]

35. Found this link:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-tv-skeptic-curiosity-mars-landing-coverage-20120803,0,1402564.story

It includes streaming sources.

I'll be watching on NASA TV channel 346 on DirecTV.

[annabanana]

45. Thankee! . . .n/t

[MrSlayer]

14. Absolutely.

Though I'm not "staying up", I'm up anyway.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

17. I am!

I'm excited and wouldn't miss it for the world.

[pokerfan]

18. I will be

though 10:30 (Pacific) isn't much of a stretch. I will be watching the CosmoQuest stream which begins at 8pm PT (11pm ET).

Press kit: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/docs/MSLLaunch.pdf

Seven Minutes of Terror:

[maveric56]

19. Which network is showing it?

I'd love to stay up and watch it.

[crimson77]

21. Hopefully all of them, but I will be watching the NASA CHANNEL.

I'm wrong MSNBC has a Lockup from 1971 they'd like you to watch.

[Posteritatis]

23. I'd guess none of them will cover it. NASA itself will be streaming the landing. (nt)

[stevedeshazer]

20. HELL yes.

As a west coaster it's 10:30 pm to me. Can't wait!!

[crimson77]

28. I loved that about the west coast.

On sunday I could watch the Patriots play and be out and about at a little after 1pm not 4pm

[Shankapotomus]

22. I will

the lure of an uninhabited planet must appeal to a lot of people.

[longship]

26. Yes, but I need DUers to help me.

I have no bandwidth, so video and even audio don't work here.

But DU does!!! (Thanks, Skinner &Co.)

If somebody starts a Curiosity thread here I will be on it like stink on shit. I could go to the Bad Astronomy blog, but Phil Plait will just post video links or his Google+ link, neither of which I have bandwidth for.

Please PM me or respond to this post if you plan on posting updates to DU.

Thank you from all bandwidth challenged DUers.

[bananas]

43. here's a good message board specifically for space flight

here's the list of the most recent posts: http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?action=recent

[nadinbrzezinski]

27. Yup, but not quite staying up

PST

[Lifelong Protester]

30. Tyson is right about the space program

stimulating interest in math and science. And dreaming. And heroes.

We need the 'manned' space program.

[agent46]

31. Star Trek Enterprise

failed on a lot of levels (sadly) but the opening sequence had something to say.

[crimson77]

33. WHATEVER, BETTER THEME:

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[agent46]

37. !!!

[lunatica]

34. kick'd and rec'd

[crimson77]

38. I am so jealous of my cousin, he gets to be at Goodard tonight

in the operations room.

[lunatica]

39. Well hell! Now I'm jealous of you for having a cousin

in the operations room. You can use that as a claim to fame for the rest of your life!

[crimson77]

40. We were at a family reunion

and all the cousins were drinking shooting the breeze. when x told us about being in the zero gravity plane, my other cousin(his sister) looks at me and say's "well, at the bar,I won our intramural dart league tourney"

[lunatica]

41. LOL!

That's cute! That makes for a good family story! Your sister has a nice sense of humor.

[Speck Tater]

36. I hope there are no cats on Mars. After all...

curiosity killed the cat.

[Ikonoklast]

48. It won't stand a chance.

[JesterCS]

42. http://eyes.nasa.gov/launch2.html?document=$SERVERURL/content/documents/msl/edl.xml

[madrchsod]

44. i remember when the guys landed on the moon...

the company i worked for brought in a tv so we could watch the landing.


i`ll probably be up to watch this one..

[RebelOne]

46. I doubt that I will be able to stay awake,

so I will watch it on TV in the morning. I am sure all the stations will be showing it. I know Good Morning, America will show it.

[shraby]

47. I'm watching! Hope nothing goes wrong because it has a lot of potential!

[Coexist]

49. link to the NASA live event:

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/nasatv/


and Google + thing going

To celebrate the landing of NASA's Curiosity Rover - the Mars Science Laboratory - we'll be running a special live hangout.

In conjunction with +CosmoQuest. We'll have all your favorite space/astronomy journalists on hand to discuss the mission in depth, and celebrate the landing live, when it happens.

Over the course of this 4-hour Google+ Hangout on Air, we'll interview members of the Curiosity team live in the hangout, as well as other special guests from the +The Planetary Society and the +SETI Institute.

+Scott Lewis and +Amy Shira Teitel will be on location at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to interview members of the engineering team, and show you what it's like to be at NASA during this amazing moment.

We'll update this event as we lock down more of the guests and participants. See you there! You can follow the hashtag #marshangout