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PASADENA, Calif. - The team in charge of successfully landing NASA s Mars rover Curiosity, managed by NASA s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., will receive the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum s 2013 Trophy for Current Achievement. The award will be presented on April 24 at a black-tie dinner in Washington, D.C. The Mars Science Laboratory Project built and operates the rover Curiosity, which has been investigating past and current environments in Mars Gale Crater since its dramatic sky-crane landing seven months ago.The trophies for current and lifetime achievement are the National Air and Space Museum s most prestigious awards. They recognize outstanding achievements in the fields of aerospace science and technology and their history.NASA s Mars Science Laboratory Project is using the Curiosity rover with its 10 science instruments to investigate whether an area within Mars Gale Crater ever has offered an environment favorable for microbial life. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the stanley cup project for NASA s Science Mission D stanley thermos irectorate in Washing stanley termosar ton. For more about the mission, visit: http://jpl.nasa.gov/msl , http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/ and http://nasa.gov/msl .You can follow the mission on Facebook and Twitter at: http://facebook/marscuriosity and http://twitter/marscuriosity .鈥?View gallery鈥?Raw Images鈥?Latest videosNews Media ContactDC AgleJet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.818-393-9011agle@jpl.nasa. Cqwy Google: Hey Kid, Wanna Cheat on Your Math Test
Cabot Brown in 1942.Courtesy of the Brown familyBy Olivia B. WaxmanSeptember 2, 2015 9:30 AM EDTSeventy years ago Wednesday, when the Japanese formally signed the documents that ended World War II aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, many families around the world rejoiced at the prospect that their loved ones who had fought till the end would begin to return home. One boy who would have known that feeling well was Philip Brown, a San Francisco middle-schooler whose father, Lieut. Commander Cabot Brown, had been a medical officer in stanley quencher the Navy.In May of 1945, TIME had printed a charming short essay that Brown wrote for his English class on the subject The First Day My Father Is Home. Now, in honor of the anniversary of V-J day, we ;ve learned the story behind how that came to pass:James Jim K. Brown, now 88, recalls that he was 18 years old, sitting at home in San Francisco, where his parents ; friends, TIME News Bureau Chief David Hulburd and h stanley thermos is Navy aviator brother Jack, had stopped by for dinner and drinks. His 11-year-old little brot stanley deutschland her Philip came downstairs with his homework, which he shared with the group. The TIME guy said we ;ll publish it, Brown says.Here how the writing assignment appeared in the magazine:My father has been out in the Pacific for about 15 months. In three months he is due home. I wonder what the first day home will be like. This is how I think it will be.Mom, Steve, Ji