El Reg is live from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, waiting to see if the Mars Science Laboratory, or Curiosity as it's better known, will land safely or crater the surface of Mars.
8:45pm In an effort to keep people occupied NASA has been bussing in celebrities to keep the assembled press talking. Geek icon Will Wheaton has been chatting to the press, joking that while he used to pilot a starship this is something else entirely.
Wheaton knows his stuff and is an entertaining speaker, but there's only so many ways you can say how exciting this is. He's also getting a lot of questions on how to use social media, which you'd think the press might know something about.
Wheaton still living off Star Trek role
9:10pm NASA has locked down communications with the spacecraft and no further course corrections are possible. The craft is now entirely on its own and is approaching the Martian atmosphere at around 13,000mph.
8:45pm In an effort to keep people occupied NASA has been bussing in celebrities to keep the assembled press talking. Geek icon Will Wheaton has been chatting to the press, joking that while he used to pilot a starship this is something else entirely.
Wheaton knows his stuff and is an entertaining speaker, but there's only so many ways you can say how exciting this is. He's also getting a lot of questions on how to use social media, which you'd think the press might know something about.
9:10pm NASA has locked down communications with the spacecraft and no further course corrections are possible. The craft is now entirely on its own and is approaching the Martian atmosphere at around 13,000mph.