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Originally Posted by dlavery
This was my sixth Mars landing, fourth one with wheels.
And this was definitely the best one yet. 
-dave
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Yep... I saw you in the background of the JPL control room. I was watching it with a bunch of friends while working on some engineering homework.
Since I worked for NASA before, they asked "Hey, do you know any of those guys." and I said, "Actually yea, I do." and I pointed you out.
Congratulations to all those involved. As a senior in computer engineering, I'm just beginning to understand the millions of man hours probably involved (spread over everyone of course) in this project.
By far the coolest thing was the skycrane. I couldn't even begin to imagine the person trying to pitch this idea.
It's one of those off the wall ideas where you chuckle at the person pitching the idea, but then once you think about it, it makes sense. Very cool to see this idea actually work (and quite impressively at that).
But yea, congratulations to all of those involved. It's quite an accomplishment for man kind. Why anyone would want to cut NASA's budget is beyond me. The work NASA does it out of this world (pun intended).