NASA Mars Rover to Liftoff today |NASA Mars Rover live Streaming
Preparations for launch of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory aboard an unmanned Atlas 5 rocket are on schedule for 10:02 a.m. EST this morning.
It’s bit cloudy at the Cape Canaveral launch site -- actually drizzling as NASA’s launch commentary started up at 7:30 a.m. -- but skies are expected to clear. Meteorologists are predicting a 70 percent chance the weather will be suitable for launch sometime during this morning’s one hour, 43 minute window