Caltech Y Friends Dinner with Rob Manning

An Insider's Biography of Mars Rover Curiosity: As Told by Chief Engineer of Mars Science Laboratory

The science and technology used in Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover is considered to be groundbreaking. It truly was, but it is also part of a continuing chain of innovation where every Mars mission relies on past missions for proven technologies and contributes its own innovations to future missions. Rob has been involved in the technical design of nearly every U.S. Mars mission for the past 20 years and has himself become a part of the biography of Curiosity.

Join us as he shares his personal account of continuing mission impossible.

Rob Manning served as chief engineer of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) project that landed Curiosity Rover on August 5, 2012. He started working on Mars missions in the early 1990s as chief engineer for Mars Pathfinder and continues to work for past and future Mars missions. Rob graduated from Caltech in 1982 and immediately joined JPL. "Mars Rover Curiosity: An Insider Account From Curiosity's Chief Engineer" was published in 2014.

Cost: $65 per dinner for Friends of the Caltech Y and Students; $75 per dinner for others

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