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LIVE THREAD: NASA's White Knuckle Insight Mars landing in approx 1 hour... @ 2:50PM, Eastern
NASA ^ | 11/26/18

Posted on 11/26/2018 11:09:35 AM PST by LibWhacker

NASA Live: Watch InSight Mars Landing Online

NASA's InSight lander is scheduled to touch down on Mars at approximately 3 p.m. EST, Monday, Nov. 26. NASA TV live coverage of the InSight Mars landing will begin at 2 p.m. Eastern (7 p.m. UTC). Follow @NASA and @NASAInSight for #MarsLanding news. See a list or an interactive timeline of landing milestones. News briefings and launch commentary will be streamed on NASA TV, YouTube.com/NASAJPL/live and Ustream.tv/NASAJPL.

Monday, Nov. 26, 2 p.m. Eastern: NASA TV live coverage of InSight mission landing on Mars. Live landing commentary runs from 2-3:30 p.m. The Entry, Descent and Landing phase will be the final plunge of NASA's Mars InSight Lander through the Martian atmosphere. It lasts about six minutes and delivers the lander safely to the surface of the Red Planet.

(Excerpt) Read more at nasa.gov ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: astronomy; elonmusk; falcon9; falconheavy; insight; lander; landing; mars; nasa; science; spaceexploration; spacex
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To: LibWhacker

Altitude 400M


41 posted on 11/26/2018 11:54:14 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

And... we are down!


42 posted on 11/26/2018 11:54:49 AM PST by ssaftler (Beam me up, Scotty! The intelligence level of this planet is sinking by the minute.)
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To: LibWhacker

TOUCHDOWN!


43 posted on 11/26/2018 11:54:49 AM PST by TomGuy
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Standing by for touchdown!

Touchdown confirmed!

WOW! That was so fast.


44 posted on 11/26/2018 11:55:12 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: ssaftler

The fastest fingers in the universe!


45 posted on 11/26/2018 11:56:13 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: TomGuy

Wait! There’s a flag on the play.. Marvin has asked for a ruling from the remote cameras judges.


46 posted on 11/26/2018 11:56:14 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: LibWhacker

Landed


47 posted on 11/26/2018 11:56:17 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: tomkat

Touchdown!!!


48 posted on 11/26/2018 11:56:43 AM PST by FlipWilson
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To: TomGuy

Hooyah! That was quick.


49 posted on 11/26/2018 11:56:45 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: tomkat

Oh, okay, thank you! Lol, thought I had missed an important component of this mission!


50 posted on 11/26/2018 11:58:26 AM PST by LibWhacker
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51 posted on 11/26/2018 11:58:34 AM PST by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: FlipWilson

Standing by for the field goal!


52 posted on 11/26/2018 11:59:31 AM PST by amorphous
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To: amorphous

Got IT!!


53 posted on 11/26/2018 12:00:04 PM PST by amorphous
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To: jonrick46

What the.....


54 posted on 11/26/2018 12:00:39 PM PST by gathersnomoss (Grace and Dignity Will Win The Day)
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To: Billthedrill

All that beautiful red sky.

When they beamed back the first Mars Viking lander pictures in 1976, they erroneously showed the landscape framed by blue sky. Oops!

The new probe is gonna look for seismic activity on Mars.


55 posted on 11/26/2018 12:00:58 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory O f A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: LibWhacker
Yea if it'd been 'crew' there'd prolly be a lot more watching, ehh ?  ;-)
56 posted on 11/26/2018 12:01:36 PM PST by tomkat
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To: LibWhacker

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee wants to see where men placed the U.S. flag in 1969. /s


57 posted on 11/26/2018 12:02:36 PM PST by SMGFan (.)
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To: FlipWilson

We should go for 2!


58 posted on 11/26/2018 12:03:31 PM PST by scottinoc
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To: SMGFan

Too bad they couldn’t have sent Mad Maxine along with it.


59 posted on 11/26/2018 12:05:37 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory O f A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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The guy on camera now just said Pence called with congratulations just a few seconds after touchdown .. pretty cool.


60 posted on 11/26/2018 12:09:23 PM PST by tomkat
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