R2-D2 to Curiosity: Good Fiction to Great Science

4,620 views · Published 12 September 2012 · 6:55 · Indexed 28 October 2026

Channel: NASA's Kennedy Space Center · 2012 · Science & Technology

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NASA goes to Star Wars Celebration VI to discuss with fans the inspiration of space exploration. NASA's Curiosity rover is firing imaginations again as it moves across Mars acting in some ways like the fictional robots from "Star Wars."

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