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And liftoff of the atlas five with curiosity. s seeking clues to the planetary puzzle about life on mars. welcome back to "the ed show." the big finish, eight months and 350 million miles. the rover curiosity touched down on mars. five days since the rover made its dramatic landing and nasa engineers say everything is going as planned. curiosity is sending back stunning 360 degree pictures of mars. they show the gale crater, scientists plan on taking the rover to mt. sharp to study rock sample...

Coming in from mars curiosity rover. derrick pitts on how the project is -- its really just reigniting the countrys interest in the space program. well talk about that later. share your thoughts on facebook and on twitter. well be right back. we lost our edge. well today, theres a new new york state. one thats working to attract businesses and create jobs. a place where innovation meets determination... and businesses lead the world. the new new york works for business. find out how it can work ...

Instrumentation on the red planet. heather: exciting news for the space program, go usa, good stuff, thank you so much. we appreciate you joining us. hey, bill, follow the water. bill: we shall. indeed. fox news alert right now weve been telling you about this for the past hour, now only moments away from a press conference on that sikh temple shooting in wisconsin. we expect to hear more about the gunman. six dead plus the shooter. we are there live in a matter of moments.

Sky hook, they called it. it was actually a rocket helicopter overhead that put curiosity down very gently and set it -- it is now sitting up right as it should be. they shouldnt have any problems. a very, very happy bunch of people that go through eight years of hard work. they just pulled something that hasnt been done before. one thing about theis space program, they have been successful with the russians and others have not. this again is technology primarily to be credited to the jet propul...

is zero room for error. about 17 minutes from now, if all goes as planned, the rover will touchdown on the martian surface. but it takes 14 minutes for a signal to travel from mars to earth, so best case scenario, confirmation will come in about 31 minutes. we expect pictures around 2 a.m. eastern. now, joining us from the laboratory in california. in moscow r where russian space officials are closely following the development and science correspondent david brodie joins us from edge w...

Again, the spinoffs, as we call them, all the material sciences, the medical sciences, astronomy, everything that we learn is incredible in these programs because these are very, very difficult missions, and when you do something really difficult and you make people stretch, amazing things happen. >> patti ann: so putting this curiosity mission in the context of other great moments in the space program throughout history, where would you rank this? >> thats a really good question. i would put --...

Before the internal combustion driven cars. the wind mills came online in the 1880s and the solar panel in the 1890s. they just are movers and need to move out of the mothers basement and as the promoters say give them a chance to compete. >> sean: it hurts our national security. we are dependent on foreign oil and raises the price of gas at the pump for the average family. jobs created and tax revenues increase. why the resistance? >> you get to look at the bottom line strategy. the 101 of busi...

>> i think now they are because we are a results oriented society. americans are saying this is what he promised and it it is not connecting to the results on the ground. the space program work one of the crucial points to make is that the united states has always been based on this notion of big america. and by thattrong militarily, strong economically and adventurous from sea to space. what this president and his policies have accomplished is so weakening theiate especially economically, sean ...

Before the internal combustion driven cars. the wind mills came online in the 1880s and the solar panel in the 1890s. they just are movers and need to move out of the mothers basement and as the promoters say give them a chance to compete. >> sean: it hurts our national security. we are dependent on foreign oil and raises the price of gas at the pump for the average family. jobs created and tax revenues increase. why the resistance? >> you get to look at the bottom line strategy. the 101 of busi...

>> i think now they are because we are a results oriented society. americans are saying this is what he promised and it it is not connecting to the results on the ground. the space program work one of the crucial points to make is that the united states has always been based on this notion of big america. and by that i mean strong militarily, strong economically and adventurous from sea to space. what this president and his policies have accomplished is so weakening theiate especially economical...