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It was such a tricky landing. do you know they sat that thing down with a series of rockets like a rocket helicopter, if you will, putting it down. they couldn't be happier. curiosity is on the surface of mars. it's a 2 $1/2 billion robot that doesn't appear that it's money wasted. >> let me ask you this. i understand the landing was precarious, but why did they have to bring the rover down in this way? >> well, they had landed before with using balloons and everything else. the original landing on mars, it landed a similar way. this was a way they can come down through this thin atmosphere an...

Sky hook, they called it. it was actually a rocket helicopter overhead that put curiosity down very gently and set it -- it is now sitting up right as it should be. they shouldn't have any problems. a very, very happy bunch of people that go through eight years of hard work. they just pulled something that hasn't been done before. one thing about theis space program, they have been successful with the russians and others have not. this again is technology primarily to be credited to the jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena, california. they pulled it off. a lot of people would give you any mo...