At T-4 minutes they hold for 10 minutes and the commentary said this was planned beforehand. Does anyone know why they don't just plan to launch 10 minutes later without the 'hold'?
UPDATE: MSL is in good health and en route to Mars. Landing anticipated: 5 August 2012 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-361
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7:30am? The official launch blog says 10:02am (EST):
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/launch/launch_blog.htm...
Thanks for the reminder! And just in time, one minute before launch.
In case you haven't seen how this thing lands, watch the link below. It's really so amazing how this is entirely automated and executed so flawlessly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BudlaGh1A0o