Not gonna lie - as soon as the rover touched down, and everyone in JPL was standing up and cheering, I cried a little. This is what we really need, and I'm so happy that it happened the way it did. It's no moon landing of '69, but I'm sure the Curiosity landing of '12 will cause a similarly large spike in the interested of science and technology, something we've really needed for a long time.



I love NASA....