National Geographic channel is having a program tonight on this astonishingly complex mission. I wish this had been shown before the landing to stoke up interest but that is a minor complaint: Producer Mark Davis spent years following NASA engineers and scientists as they built the $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory mission, which later was renamed Curiosity. His documentary chronicles the rover's construction challenges, a frustrating two-year launch delay due to technology hurdles, and finally the rover's spectacular, flawless landing on Mars this week.
No one is curious. I mean-shouldn’t we have shot out of the other side of a black hole by now?
ReplyDeleteNational Geographic channel is having a program tonight on this astonishingly complex mission. I wish this had been shown before the landing to stoke up interest but that is a minor complaint:
ReplyDeleteProducer Mark Davis spent years following NASA engineers and scientists as they built the $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory mission, which later was renamed Curiosity. His documentary chronicles the rover's construction challenges, a frustrating two-year launch delay due to technology hurdles, and finally the rover's spectacular, flawless landing on Mars this week.
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