The Mars rover Curiosity is beginning its fifth day on the red planet, and it’s been performing flawlessly from the moment it landed.
That’s been especially gratifying for NASA landing engineer Adam Steltzner. Last Friday, while Steltzner was still on pins and needles waiting for the landing to take place, I told the story of Steltzner’s decision as a young man to give up his life as a rocker and go for a career in space engineering.
After the landing, I wanted to check in with Steltzner again to find out what those fateful moments were like for him during the landing.
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