Friday, May 25, 2012

mission control

I joined a tour of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena today.  I had been to the annual open house before, but this was nice because we got to see some different areas without all the crowds.

This is the old mission control room, considered outdated by today's standards.  The new mission control room is in a different building with a bunch of computers.  Still, this is the one you'll see on television when the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity lands in August.  It looks more impressive on camera :).
 

A scale model of the Mars Science Laboratory, due to land on Mars August 5, 2012.

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