And The Gold Goes To NASA
It’s appropriate that the MSL, Curiosity Rover, landed during the Olympics. It was a gold medal for NASA. I’m an engineer and I know that if anything can go wrong it will. But nothing went wrong. They were even able to to get a picture of the descent.
Is that cool or what? It will be a couple of weeks before Curiosity gets down to work and it will incease our knowledge of not only the Red Planet but the solar system. But the real story is the engineering itself. This is a real example of American exceptionalism. It’s not how many countries we can invade and occupy but ideas that make the United States exceptional. I have been both a hardware and software engineer and I find this accomplishment nothing less that amazing.
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Brilliant!
Amen Ron!
Space seems to be the last place where we can be proud of what our nation has accomplished without any reservations. I’m not saying we don’t have other areas to be proud about, but they all seem mired in some political goo and can be spun into some rant about something. This here is unfettered American awsesomeness. Good job NASA!
Best buy for the money we can get. Good on you, all you NASA guys and gals. Comparing the pictures of the control room of the moon landing and of this Mars landing – a smattering of women show up; another sign of progress at NASA
Leave it to a photographer to find the right photograph and an engineer to direct the appreciation where it so rightly belongs… Thanks Ron.