Tonight aerospace enthusiasts will hold their collective breath as NASA 's Mars Science Laboratory, aka Curiosity , attempts to land on the red planet at 1:31 a.m. ET.

NASA TV—streaming below from the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California—offers a front row seat to history, and a chance to be among the first to learn the outcome of the rover's "seven minutes of terror."