In case you haven't seen how this thing lands, watch the link below. It's really so amazing how this is entirely automated and executed so flawlessly.<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BudlaGh1A0o" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BudlaGh1A0o</a>
At T-4 minutes they hold for 10 minutes and the commentary said this was planned beforehand. Does anyone know why they don't just plan to launch 10 minutes later without the 'hold'?
UPDATE: MSL is in good health and en route to Mars. Landing anticipated: 5 August 2012
<a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-361" rel="nofollow">http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-361</a>
If you're having trouble getting it to load, you might try here instead: <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl" rel="nofollow">http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl</a>
7:30am? The official launch blog says 10:02am (EST):<p><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/launch/launch_blog.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/launch/launch_blog.htm...</a>