Lisa Hannigan's wonderful album "
Passenger" includes a funny little song called "Safe Travels (Don't Die)." It sounds like it was inspired by a friend who says this to her when she travels, but here I am applying it to NASA's
Mars Science Laboratory rover which was launched yesterday. I caught the launch live on CNN, and it was a beautiful sight. So far the spacecraft seems to be in good health, and I do wish
Curiosity safe travels on its long 251 day cruise to Mars.
I was fortunate enough to see
Curiosity in the flesh (so to speak) during assembly in the clean room at the
JPL Open House I attended in May 2009. The picture above shows the "sky crane" rocket platform that will gently lower the rover to the surface in August 2012. More pix on
Flickr.
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