This is cool! I hope that it is able to land and we get some incredible images from it.

This is going to be awesome. I am really looking
forward to this.

I wish they wouldn’t put all their eggs in one basket. Someone needs to design a cheap probe, mass produce it, and then fire them out en masse to a couple hundred different destinations. If 10% of them brought back photos of something neat, then we’d have some enthusiasm ( and maybe funding ) for more space exploration. I have Mars fatigue at this point and its pretty clear that there’s nothing there except maybe some ancient xeno-bacteria on ice.

No………we are not alone. How can anyone believe we are the only planet with life. We aren’t. I wish we all knew what our government actually knows……………………

Well, if martians can come here, according to the ufo folk, then we should be returning the favor.

Is this really going to lead to a global solution to our social and economic woes? I know where the money could be better spent.

hillary is a day late and a dollar short.obama will try to correct the mistakes of the military-industrial complex ,which president Eisenhower warned us of,back in the 50’s.

Hey another piece space litter, I’d be more impressed if it had a way to return for proper disposal.

This is interesting news! Please do more of these different topics. You guys are stuck on saving Hillary. Branching out is good for us all.

How can they be having problems landing a spacecraft. They say because it is larger and has to land without airbags. Moon, Mars, what’s the difference? Hmmmmmmmm isn’t this something that they say they accomplished in 1968? Did we ever land men on the moon in 1968? I mean REALLLLLLLY?

I wish that tomorrow will be a big success for science. It is hard to work for years and lose it in seven minutes - or less. I hope that this will be a step forward to understand where we are and how unique is planet Earth.

I remember my first cat (catapult) shot out of the carrier deck. It was just as I had been trained and expected. Once airborne, gear up, stick back, and later, mission accomplished; I realized I would have to get back to the boat and make the trap. The training worked, caught the number three wire. Similarly, the NASA boys must be very sure their mission will be a success. They launched, now they have to land. Tally-ho Mars !!