Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120807:04:56:00
[cheers and applause ]down conf [cheers and applause ] >> that was a control room full of scientists in pasadena, california, geeking out over the successful landing of the mars curiosity rover. it is safe to say that it's directly proportional to the aerospace feat that they are celebrating here. the rover is the size of a car. it weighs about a ton. which means that it's too big and too heavy to land using the only ways we have successfully ever put anything on mars before. so engineers had to come up with a really novel and sort of crazy plan for how to do this. rover wouldn't just plummet ...
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