Early Aug. 6, NASA's Curiosity rover-the centerpiece of a $2.5 billion flagship mission-raced across the Martian sky, undergoing a half-dozen rapid-fire changes in configuration before an untried "Sky Crane" landing system paused just above the terrain to lower the one-metric-ton robot geologist to the surface. Three days later, Morpheus, an unpiloted NASA prototype for a multimission planetary lander, crashed moments after lifting off from a simulated lunar landscape at the Kennedy Space Center.
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机译：8月6日，美国国家航空航天局（NASA）的“好奇号”漫游车-一项耗资25亿美元的旗舰任务的核心-横跨火星的天空，进行了六次快速火力调整，其前未尝试的“天空起重机”着陆系统暂停在地面上方将一吨重的机器人地质学家降低到地面。三天后，莫菲斯（Morpheus）是美国宇航局（NASA）无人驾驶的多用途行星着陆器原型，从肯尼迪航天中心（Kennedy Space Center）的模拟月球景观升空后坠毁。
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