Red rover, red rover LSU Alumnus sends spacecraft one planet over

“I always just followed my curiosity,” Keith Comeaux said.
Ironically enough, his curiosity led him to Curiosity. Comeaux, a 1989 LSU graduate, works at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, where he’s been instrumental in the past two Mars rover missions.
The Baton Rouge native served as the flight director for Curiosity’s 2012 entry, descent and landing on Mars.
As the Mars 2020 mission manager, Comeaux led the team through the launch, cruise, approach, entry, descent and landing of the Perseverance Rover, which touched down successfully on the red planet on Feb. 18.
Since then, Comeaux has been working on “Mars time” to ensure safe surface operations.

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