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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120806:05:28:00

this is a fox news alert. space rover curiosity made a landing on mars. nasa isn t expected to find out at about 1:30 a.m. at the earliest. and with us is former nasa astronaut tom jones joining us from our washington, d.c. bureau. and this must be a special night for enthusists and everyone else out there watching. mars has been in our imagination over a century. we ve had mars rover spirit and opportunity on mars this, rover is so times bigger than those previous rovers and we re going to learn about the suitibility of mars for past and present life there. and this is especially intense because nasa is testing out a brand new landing technique.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120805:21:54:00

tomorrow morning. the landing is a complicated sequence of events, called seven minutes of terror. we have former nasa astronauts and author. tom, talk to us about how tricky this is. guest: very ambitious landing. they have had to do a new landing technique on this attempt because this one ton rover cannot come down with airbag cushioning like others. the normal landers will not work because the rubber is too heavy to drive off the ramp. so, this sky crane system of tying the rocket to a sled and lowering to the surface is the solution. it has been tested in theory by computer and individual component testing but the real test is tonight when curiosity tries to settle on the surface of the crater. heather: what do we hope to learn from it? guest: two goals. the first is to see if there are compounds, hydrogen and oxygen and carbon compounds in the soil

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120806:04:30:15

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120806:04:30:15
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