Forget the woes of Starliner with an audacious NASA landing on another planet that went very very right
While NASA might be struggling to get its Starliner crew home, it's worth remembering that circa 12 years ago, the agency was celebrating the successful deployment of the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars.on the Martian surface on August 5, 2012, showcasing just what the agency's boffins could do when given time, budget, and space to be creative.
Curiosity was, however, a very different beast. For one, the rover is a lot larger than its predecessor. NASA also wanted to land it in places that airbags couldn't go. Engineers were forced to come up with an alternative: the Sky Crane. Yes, there was still a parachute. But that was where the similarities ended.
"People were confused by that," he said."They assumed propulsion would always be below you, like you see in old science fiction with a rocket touching down on a planet."Bugging out: 53 years since humans first drove a battery-powered car on the MoonRosalind Franklin rover gets another shot at Mars after string of bad luck
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