Obummer has, typically, drawn the wrong lesson from this amazing feat and used the moment to call for more government spending. A better leader might consider that our problem is not too little borrowing and is instead a matter of redrawing priorities in spending what we don’t already have.
By the way, this is also the 67th anniversary of our dropping the bomb on Hiroshima. There’s a certain easy irony in comparing the disparate results of two different acts of brilliant engineering. Different times.
The date on the article was 2009, indeed 64 years after the dropping of the bomb.
Oh, too bad – it popped up on Google news as current and I didn’t notice the date of the article. I’ll have to fix that, sadly.
We stayed up and watched The Curiosity land. Talk about a thrilling moment for science. In the Olympics of space exploration, the NASA team win gold!!
With so much of what we do as a country related to passing time, blue sky engineering is something to get excited about. I woke my daughter up last night to watch the live feed. I wish there where more of these events.
I guess my friend who used to work at NASA until Obama canceled future programs (Curiosity was Bush’s fault) will be excited to hear he has evolved on the space program…..
Cool topic. Not a great article. Says the engineers watched as the rover landed. In reality they watched, what, 9 minutes later? Also, the author could’ve found a better way, under the circumstances, to describe the parachute than the largest in the “world.”
But thanks for posting, even if CNN is now third rate.
OG17, I see that like me, you don’t proof read your posts very carefully, so let me point out your mistake. I see that you wrote “canceled future programs” though I think what you meant was “canceled America’s future” or “put everyone’s future on hold for at least the next few generations”.
To bad that too big to fail ate all the money, and, probably, in the not too distant future, is going to be looking for second helpings, or is it third, fourth, or fifth helpings by now. When will it end?