THE NERDIST Buzz Aldrin & NASA’s Bobak Ferdowsi - New May 11 BBC AMERICA (by BBCAmericaTV)
Mike Espy, second from the left, a sophomore at Little Snake River Valley School in Baggs, Wyo., poses in front of the John Kennedy Painting at the White House with, from left, Cece Poole, Bobak Ferdowsi, engineer on Mars Rover for Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Carolyn Hicks, Little Snake River Valley School science teacher. Espy was invited to Washington D.C. to participate in the White House Science Fair after placing second in the DuPont Challenge.
(via Craig Daily Press / Little Snake River Valley student earns trip to Washington, D.C.)
Q&A: NASA's Bobak Ferdowsi
TFK Kid Reporter Rylan J. Daniels visited NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California to interview one of the space agency’s engineers, Bobak Ferdowsi. He became an overnight Internet sensation when his mohawk haircut, decorated with stars and stripes, was caught on camera during news coverage of the Curiosity rover’s historic landing on Mars. Even President Obama joked that he was thinking about getting a haircut like the “Mohawk Guy.”
NASA Mohawk guy may or may not be involved with the fact that Curiosity rover drew a penis with its wheels on the martian surface…
Bobak Ferdowsi Pictures, Videos, Bio on WhoSay
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Yuri’s Night 2013 Under Space Shuttle Endeavour | The Planetary Society
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Inspiring Students to Build Robots (by JPLnews)
Just a photo of Alex and myself with Bobak Ferdowsi (NASA Mohawk Guy). We hung out last night and had some drinks. No big deal.
Guys! I finally met Bobak, aka NASA/JPL Mohawk Guy. He was really nice and talked with us for a bit, despite the fact we interrupted his conversation with his friends and I’m sure he gets recognized a lot nowadays. It’s funny that we finally ended up running into him at a restaurant in Pasadena because I see him from a distance all the time around work but I’ve never gotten to talk to him before.
I feel starstruck! Haha, but really, he has one of the coolest jobs ever working with Curiosity/the Mars Science Laboratory, and I think it’s great that he’s not afraid to be himself in such a generally conservative/old fashioned industry like the aerospace industry. Plus it’s great to have someone in the public eye to represent NASA and JPL and promote science, engineering, and spaceflight!
Hee.
