Curiosity landed perfectly on Mars! It was a spectacular engineering feat!


The President's science adviser, John Holdren said:

"if anyone had any doubts about American technological leadership,there's a one-ton, car-sized piece of American ingenuity, and it's sitting on the surface of Mars right now."





The director of JPL, Charles Elachi, said, as he paraphrased Teddy Roosevelt's quote:

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."