This summer, when the Curiosity rover touched down on the red planet, a few of Tech’s own were among the NASA scientists and researchers celebrating back on Earth.
Devin Kipp, MS AE 05, and Ravi Prakash, MS AE 05, worked as part of the Mars Science Laboratory’s entry descent and landing team since 2005, joining David Way, PhD AE 01, a member of the team since 2002.
The Curiosity rover is humankind’s most ambitious foray onto the terrain of another planet. The seven minutes it took to successfully land were the result of more than 10 years of research, testing and painstaking simulation.
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