Next to the moon landing this may be the biggest day in the history of NASA. Check this link to see how everything needed to go just right for it to work...and it did.

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHwUrxzrvtg

simply amazing.

Sound stage in the Hollywood back lots.

:-)

They need to figure out how to land jobs on this planet imo..

Abandoning science and exploration will not lead to jobs in the future.

As a nation we're already well behind almost every other modern nation on the planet when it comes to math and sciences.

It is time that we pushed knowledge again and stop this backward grind that we're on.

Doubling the capital gains tax rate...that should help add jobs, right? Lol.

"They need to figure out how to land jobs on this planet imo.. "
Obama has tried to get a Mars stimulus jobs package through but the d@mnn Republicans have it stuck in committee!

Go Beavs!

Oregon State's Earth, Oceanic and Atmospheric sciences department built the atmospheric model used for the expedition.

-chef

Thankfully, we have the NASA channel here, so I got to see it all live last night. It was spectacular. Once in a lifetime.

I bet they find one of Barry Bonds missing balls up there.
There are several that are still unaccounted for.
It would be nice to get it back here and have Barry sign it?

yikes, not going to touch that one . For the record though, my post was in jest.