If NASA Pulls Curiosity’s Mars Landing Off — We Will Have a National Technological Tour de Force to be Proud of — for the First Time in a Very Long While

© 2012 Peter Free

 

05 August 2012

 

 

To watch coverage of the Mars landing — click on the below link

 

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Watch Curiosity’s Landing, NASA (05 August 2012)

 

 

Significance?

 

Getting the heavy Curiosity rover safely onto Mars will be an engineering and organizational coordination achievement of inspiring proportion.

 

Success may motivate some of us to take a closer look at how far the United States has drifted from focusing on doing meaningful things like this.

 

 

Citation — for more links to coverage

 

Ed Stockly, Where you can watch Curiosity Mars landing coverage, Los Angeles Times (05 August 2012)