Landing on Mars? Pass the peanuts
Sunday, August 5, 2012 8:16
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Just about an hour before NASA’s Curiosity rover attempts to land on Mars Sunday night (the touchdown is scheduled for 12:31 a.m. CDT Monday), its mission manager will take part in a long-standing tradition at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.: he will eat some peanuts. The “lucky” legumes, labeled in part “dare mighty things,” date back to the Ranger 7 moon mission in 1964, and have since been present at every important planetary probe event at JPL.
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