It was on this day in 2011 that I attended a social media event (called the JPL Tweetup) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Pasadena, California...during which I got to see the Curiosity Mars rover undergo final testing inside the Spacecraft Assembly Facility (SAF). By the end of that June, the 6-wheeled, nuclear-powered robot was transported to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to be prepared for launch—which took place aboard an Atlas V rocket from nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on November 26, 2011. This was such a cool moment, and I was glad that I was also able to see Curiosity's successor, Perseverance, built inside the SAF several years later.
For more images that I took at the JPL Tweetup, click here.
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