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Mars rover has to stick landing

9-month flight to end with Transformers-type flourish

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Photographs by PATRICK T. FALLON / MCT/Los Angeles Times

By SCOTT GOLD LOS ANGELES TIMES

In less than two weeks, an engineer named Ray Baker will be staring into his computer screen late at night at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, hopeful and helpless — or, as he puts it, “sweating blood.” The night will have been 10 years and $2.5 billion in the making, incorporating the work of 5,000 people in 37 states.

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  • Headline: Mars rover has to stick landing
  • Publication: Business, Pages 19 on 07/23/2012
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