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lyford
post Aug 6 2012, 01:38 AM
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I was flying this weekend, and so saved my peanuts... I had a safe landing, so I am cheering for MSL to have one too!

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post Aug 6 2012, 01:39 AM
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RUI is here!!!!! And yes RED wine is being opened... smile.gif mars.gif mars.gif mars.gif


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post Aug 6 2012, 02:15 AM
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De-lurking for the evening to wish good luck and Godspeed to all those involved with tonight's landing. (As bkellysky noted, in the absence of a cheerleading thread, I decided to add my best wishes here.)

BTW -- anyone have a good timeline hack on when to open up my bag of mission peanuts? That would have been a good event to have on the EDL portion of the Eyes sim. wink.gif

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post Aug 6 2012, 02:35 AM
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Not sure when the right moment is, but I found at least 3 jars of Planter's peanuts in this gigapan of mission control smile.gif

(Apologies if it has been posted already in another thread...)


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post Aug 6 2012, 03:40 AM
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post Aug 6 2012, 03:59 AM
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QUOTE (dvandorn @ Aug 5 2012, 06:15 PM) *
De-lurking for the evening to wish good luck and Godspeed to all those involved with tonight's landing...

-the other Doug


oDoug...now that's a name I haven't seen in a long time. Good to see you are alive and well and joining the party. smile.gif

Cheers from another lurker.
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post Aug 6 2012, 04:09 AM
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Just a note; the stream thread has been temporarily closed to redirect comments to the EDL thread.

Not gonna close this one just yet, but please put comments regarding EDL over there; thanks!


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post Aug 6 2012, 04:12 AM
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QUOTE (dvandorn @ Aug 6 2012, 04:15 AM) *
BTW -- anyone have a good timeline hack on when to open up my bag of mission peanuts? That would have been a good event to have on the EDL portion of the Eyes sim. wink.gif

-the other Doug


I'd say...start on the hour to beat the communications delay and Cruise Stage Sepp. There is a link to a timeline in the pinned faq thread


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post Aug 6 2012, 04:14 AM
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Temporarily closed...let's all go over to the EDL thread.

GO CURIOSITY!!!!


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post Aug 6 2012, 04:15 AM
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QUOTE (dvandorn @ Aug 5 2012, 07:15 PM) *
De-lurking

Good to see you again o-Doug.


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post Aug 6 2012, 07:40 AM
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Hey, dvandorn. Good to see you back. You've been missed.

I was sent this image today, and it was purported to be something else that might improve the odds tonight. It looks like NASA/JPL were successful. Yay!


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post Aug 6 2012, 12:03 PM
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Don't tell me what happened! NBC is tape-delaying the landing for primetime tonight wink.gif
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post Aug 6 2012, 12:47 PM
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Feeling tired? Late for work today?
Here's your excuse.

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post Aug 6 2012, 08:46 PM
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So, now that Curiosity has landed, it's no longer a spacecraft, right? It certainly isn't involved in unmanned spaceflight, since it is no longer flying. So, UMSF's coverage will be wrapping up soon, I suppose. All that's left to do is get the MEDLI and MARDI data down, which recorded the end of the flight.
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post Aug 6 2012, 09:10 PM
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You're absolutely right. I'm gonna go close all them pesky MSL threads right now... rolleyes.gif


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