MIT Alumni Team Up for the Mars Curiosity Project
Todd Barber Prepares in Mission Control
Propulsion engineer Todd Barber ’88, SM ’91 (second from right), says he owes his interest in aerospace to his grandmother, who handed him copies of National Geographic that covered the Voyager flybys of Jupiter and Saturn when he was in eighth grade. A composer who minored in music at MIT, he also channels his sense of exploration into visits to places around the United States where three or four states meet at a common point. Barber calls Curiosity’s successful landing—after flying 352 million miles—“an incredible rock-star moment” and “the greatest revenge-of-the-nerds fantasy.”
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