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Old 25-May-2008, 11:40 PM
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Cruise stage has separated. About seven minutes to reentry blackout.
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Old 25-May-2008, 11:42 PM
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Now communicating in UHF relayed by Mars Odyssey.
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Man. Back in '73 I was at Kennedy watching Skylab and yelling go-go-go-

Now I'm sitting here saying slow-slow-slow-
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Leo Laporte's watching the coverage and streaming his comments about everything. (Just in case NASA TV alone isn't geeky enough for you.)
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One minute from entry interface ERT (already happened 16 minuntes ago)
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The Yahoo feed seems to be about a minute behind live - I just heard the 1:35 to atmospheric entry call about that long after hearing it on the Science Channel.

Atmospheric entry according to Sci. Channel.
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This is the "terror" part eh?
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Yahoo definitely behind.
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All that I'm seeing is they've just now separated from the cruise stage.
Waiting for entry.

The web broadcast is better for me.
They're showing the mission instead of talking over it on the Sci channel
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Peak heating.
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Yahoo definitely behind.
There's Eart-receive time, and then there's received-from-Yahoo-time

D Muller's sim is keeping me informed.
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Odyssey has Phoenix carrier signal.
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Phoenix parachute deployed.
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Heat shield jettisoned.
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Through the fire! Now, land softly!
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So far so good.

So far.

So good!


Let's hear it........
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Radar on. 2000 meters up.
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Touchdown!
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Touchdown signal detected.
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Obligatory: w00t!!!1!
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Great landing Phoenix! Bravo NASA!! Superb engineering, space science.

Watched it all on NASA TV, heartpounding exciting, finished the nuts.

Next, activate the 'pooper scooper'.
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