. INDEX to MEDIA EVENTS Launch-minus-Four-Days L-4, Monday November 21, 2011 FIRST === 11 am RADIOLOGICAL CONTROL CENTER (RADCC) Safety procedures for the Mars Science Laboratory’s (MSL) Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG) SECOND === 1 pm WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT MARS? Michael Meyer, lead scientist Mars Exploration Program John Grotzinger, project scientist, MSL, California [...]
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LIFE at a LAUNCH == Mars Science Laboratory Launch == Five Days before Launch == Monday, November 21, 2011
Posted in mars, mars science laboratory, orion, tagged apollo, Bethany Ehlmann, California Institute of Technology, Canister Rotation Facility, check out building, constellation, control room, jet propulsion laboratory, John Grotzinger, jpl, kennedy space center, ksc, Launch Equipment Test Facility, low earth orbits, mars science laboratory, Michael Meyer, MMRTG, msl, Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator, Multi-payload Processing Facility, nasa, Operations and Checkout Building for Orion Manned Space Capsule, orion, orion escape mechanism, orion mission, photograph, RADCC, Radiological Control Center, re-purposes on November 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What’s coming …
Posted in launch pad 41, mars, mars science laboratory, tagged atlas rocket, kennedy space center, launch, mars, mars science laboratory, pad 41 on November 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) lifts off in a picture perfect launch from Pad 41, Kennedy Space Center at 10:02 am EST, Saturday morning, November 26, 2011. The MSL will land on Mars on August 6, 2012, at Gale Crater. It will begin an exploration that could last years. Control of the MSL mission will [...]
Mars, and the Mars Science Laboratory
Posted in launch pad 41, mars, mars science laboratory, tagged atlas rocket, kennedy space center, ksc, mars science laboratory on launch pad, msl, msl launch, nasa, pad 41, roof, VAB, vehicle assembly building on November 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We spent the week at Kennedy Space Center in briefings on the Mars Science Laboratory which is scheduled to launch at 10:02 am EST, November 26, 2012, Saturday morning. Carol Anne will shoot it from the roof of the Launch Control Center. I’ll be on the roof of the Vehicle Assembly Building. The Lab is [...]
Launch of the MSL == Quick Link to NASA’s Video
Posted in mars, mars science laboratory, tagged atlas rocket, launch, mars science laboratory, msl, nasa, pad 41, video, video of mars launch, video of msl launch on November 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
To find NASA’s video of the launch of the Mars Science Laboratory click HERE — then look to the right for the launch video. The launch video, from NASA, runs 3:59 and begins 15 seconds before the launch.
Mars Rover in 3D
Posted in mars, mars science laboratory, tagged 3D, 3D picture, curiousity, jet propulsion laboratory, jpl, kennedy space center, mars rover, mars science laboratory, msl on November 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Both of the photographs below are 3D. NASA provided the Tweeters with red/green glasses. You’ll have to find your own 3D glasses, but if you do, you’ll find these photos are in 3D … we checked … but this 3D picture will not work with 3D glasses you nabbed at the multiplex. You need glasses [...]
Animation of MSL’s Landing on Mars
Posted in launch pad 41, mars, mars science laboratory, tagged animation of landing, curiousity, mars rover, mars science laboratory, msl on November 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Mars Science Laboratory launches no earlier than Saturday, November 26, 2011, 10:02 am EST. The Landing is scheduled for August 6, 2012. See NASA’s animation of how MSL’s Curiosity rover will land on Mars HERE. Watch the launch live on Saturday morning NASA TV.
Current header Photograph == MSL on way to Pad 41
Posted in launch pad 41, mars, mars science laboratory, tagged atlas rocket, kennedy space center, mars science laboratory, mission to mars, moving msl to launch pad, msl, nasa, pad 39 A, pad 41, when will we land on mars? on November 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Mars Science Lab, atop an Atlas rocket, is moved from its hangar (left) to Pad 41 (right — the four lightning towers) where it is scheduled to begin a 9 month trip to the surface of Mars at 10:02 am, Saturday, November 26, 2011. This photo, taken about 9 am, Friday, November 25, 2011, [...]
Mars Science Laboratory has been rolled out to Launching Pad 41
Posted in mars, mars science laboratory, tagged atlas rocket, kennedy space center, mars science laboratory, mission to mars, msl, nasa, pad 41 on November 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Current header Photograph == Lightning Tower, Launch Pad 39-B
Posted in launch pad 41, mars, mars science laboratory, tagged apollo, Challenger, kennedy space center, ksc, pad 39-B on November 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Until May, NASA thought they were tearing down Pad 39-B to re-purpose her for the Constellation program. Then, for a second time, just as the new spaceship was about to be manufactured, Obama canceled it. Millions were wasted. In preparation for Constellation, three lightning towers were arrayed around the launch pad at 39-B. Why? Who [...]
