BY FROMA HARRP When Curiosity touched down on Mars, joy erupted at NASA’s lab in Pasadena, CA, and national pride swelled. America the Demoralized had briefly vanished. Our research instruments were going where no research instruments had gone before. America was back at its game. The Mars landing cost a cool $2.5 billion. No doubt, the folks at NASA wanted this voyage to drum up interest in the space program at a time when budgets […]
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