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Shatner and Wheaton Narrate Mars Rover's Landing Sequence

Posted by Soulskill on from the to-boldly-narrate-where-no-one-has-narrated-before dept.

SternisheFan tips news that William Shatner and Wil Wheaton have each narrated a NASA video titled "Grand Entrance," which documents the upcoming descent and landing of Mars rover Curiosity onto the Red planet. Curiosity is the nickname for the Mars Science Laboratory, the largest rover ever sent to another world. It is scheduled to land on Mars on August 5 at 10:31PM PDT (August 6 at 05:31 UTC), and the event will be broadcast live on NASA TV. The landing process documented in the video will take about 7 minutes, and it has to go perfectly all on its own — the time delay caused by the 154-million-mile distance to Earth means that signals will take 14 minutes to even reach us. For further details, check out Wil's video or William's. NASA's fact sheet (PDF) has more information as well.

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  1. Expected TL:DR Transcript by Narnie · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wheaton: We're still waiting for the first signal.
    Shatner: The... probe... must have... broken... up.

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  2. The Original NASA One Was Fine by RapidEye · · Score: 5, Informative

    I thought the one they posted earlier with the actual NASA scientists/engineers was pretty solid: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.cfm?id=1090

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  3. Re:Oh Dear God No by kdogg73 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh my!!!

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  4. Re:To boldly go by VGPowerlord · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder which future NASA project will be narrated by Jeri Ryan

    Back when Voyager was created, Uranus was the 7th of the 9 planets in the Solar System.

    Therefore, she'll narrate when NASA goes to probe Uranus.

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