pretty freaking sweet!

Most excellent news for NASA. And here's to the hope I have UK brings Beagle 2 back to life. Good luck, team.

This is awesome news..with so many failures in the past 10 years, it's great that NASA finally has a win on their hands...

Yay! I wonder how much longer till people actually go? :|

Wow, that's really neat.

pretty cool ****

Quote: 0612 GMT (1:12 a.m. EST) "When you walk outside today, if it is clear, you can see Mars. Just think, we just landed a rover on that planet. That is very sobering," JPL d…

Quote: Originally posted by ironknee: woo hoo! any news on the beagle2? They have another chance to hear from it on Sunday, January 4th. If they don't hear from…

woo hoo! any news on the beagle2?

NASA TV live feeds (requires RealPlayer): http://www.unitedspacealliance.com/live/nasatv.htm http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Web.html

Quote: Originally posted by Spliff: Entry, Descent, and Landing Diagram I don' get it.. the airbags deployed after the first bounce? Wow, we've been doign it wro…

press conference at 12:30 am EST...

The Spirit is powered by the PowerPC chip. Cool. Quote: The computer in each Mars Exploration Rover runs with a 32-bit Rad 6000 microprocessor, a radiation-hardened version o…

Quote: Originally posted by Chris Grande: Hot Damn! She made it! Entry, Descent, and Landing Diagram

This is a happy day... NASA knows the difference between Pounds and Newtons after all!!! This really is good news though. Congrats, NASA!

Quote: 0453 GMT (11:53 p.m. EST) The Mission Control room is a wild place at the moment with handshakes, screams and some very happy tears. Not to get sappy…

Quote: Originally posted by King Bob On The Cob: It's transmitting... Woo hoo! Spirit lives!

Hot Damn! She made it!

It's transmitting...

SPIRIT IS ALIVE ON MARS! A "very strong signal" is now being received from the Spirit rover from the Gusev Crater on the surface of the Red Planet!

Quote: SPIRIT IS ALIVE ON MARS! A "very strong signal" is now being received from the Spirit rover from the Gusev Crater on the surface of the Red Planet! w00t…

Quote: Originally posted by Earth Mk. II: I hope this one actually makes it. So do I. But I'm starting to freak out. It's been 10 minutes and they still haven't …

I hope this one actually makes it. If it doesn't, I'll be convinced that the martians don't want us spying on their tea parties.

This is nerve-wracking. I can't take it. They had indications that it was bouncing on the surface, but now it's gone silent.

Updates here: http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/statustextonly.html Just refresh the page. Dunno if it survived yet.