Pizza Slow, NASA is landing 'Curiosity' on Mars, 350 million miles away

NASA is landing “Curiosity” on Mars, 350 million miles away tonight. At the light-speed delay, mission control is more story telling what happened to pre-engineered gear than actually controlling anything reactively. Neat stuff.

Posted on Facebook over 14 years agoon August 05, 2012 - 10:00 PM and archived here at /facebook/2012/08/05/22-00-00-nasa-is-landing-curiosity-on-mars-350-million-mile/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/facebook/2012/08/05/22-00-00-nasa-is-landing-curiosity-on-mars-350-million-mile/ in the Facebook collection in both HTML and markdown.

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