Curiosity has landed – Managing Operational Risks at the edge

Relive the nail-biting terror and joy as NASA's Curiosity rover successfully landed on Mars the evening of August 5th PDT (morning of August 6th EDT). See and hear the team inside JPL mission control along with a visualization of the spacecraft's entry, descent and landing.

Really heart stirring emotional stuff and well worth watching again and again.

But think about it. An operation of this nature, which displays the panicle of man’s technological prowess, is also one fraught with Operational Risks. The successful landing is equally a product of successfully managing those Operational Risks too.