Curiosity by Rod Pyle

Author:Rod Pyle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2014-06-15T16:00:00+00:00

+05:00: At this time, Earth was out of radio contact so the “heartbeat” tones Al Chen referred to earlier could not be sent home to be heard fourteen minutes later, but this was expected. It would be sweaty-palms time nonetheless.

+06:00: The landing rockets were primed and made ready.

+06:16: Backshell separation—the protective aeroshell, as well as the parachute, were left behind to drift away, their work done. The landing rockets were ignited and throttled up to 20 percent. The rockets also guided MSL off to the side in what is called a “slew maneuver,” maneuvering about one thousand feet to get it out of the way of the parachute and backshell, which continued to fall.

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