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Adam Steltzner

 * ... that Adam Steltzner (pictured), the lead engineer of the Mars Curiosity rover landing, said he spent high school "studying sex, drugs and rock and roll"?
 * Reviewed Krithika (writer)

Created/expanded by Green Cardamom (talk). Self nom at 01:36, 8 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Symbol question.svg Need experienced DYK editor or admin to weigh in on the license of the image of this living person. It's a frame capture from a NASA video. Maile66 (talk) 16:29, 20 August 2012 (UTC)


 * I've become somewhat versed in NASA licensing recently. The image is taken directly from NASA JPL website. Related documents are JPL image/video policy and Wikilegal/NASA images. All indications are this image complies with the PD-USGov-NASA + Personality rights templates. Note that the image has a "©NASA" meaning there are no third parties it is a NASA owned image (see documents above for significance of being in the Public Domain). The only other issue is the JPL policy about pictures of people, which is handled through the "Personality rights" template (discussed here). If you have any concerns let me know, thanks. Green Cardamom (talk) 17:03, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks.  But you are the author and the nominator.  You can't review your own nominated image. Needs to be someone else
 * Maile66 (talk) 18:00, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
 * That's fine I wasn't making a decision just providing information. Green Cardamom (talk) 18:42, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
 * And it is greatly appreciated and will come in handy to whoever reviews the image. Maile66 (talk) 18:49, 20 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Symbol question.svg on the image (see above). But I'm giving the article itself a pass. The promoter can decide about the image. Let's get this Mars mission on the front page. Maile66 (talk) 21:09, 23 August 2012 (UTC)


 * The following has been checked in this review by Maile66
 * QPQ done by Green Cardamom on August 11, 2012
 * Article created by Green Cardamom on August 6, 2012 and has 4,832 characters of readable prose
 * NPOV, well written
 * Every paragraph has in-line citatins with above-average sources
 * Hook is interesting, short enough at 153 characters, and sourced at the end of the sentence
 * Duplication Detector run, no copyvio found
 * Time spent on review approximately 30 minutes

Good to go, and a nifty human interest article behind the scenes of the recent Curiosity  Mars landing
 * Maile66 (talk) 21:09, 23 August 2012 (UTC)