ROCKETS AND ROBOTS: Inside the Southern California lab taking us to the far reaches of space

If we're ever going to see astronauts living on Mars like we did in the 2015 film "The Martian," the groundwork for such a mission will come from an unusual facility in Southern California.Just five miles north of Pasadena, NASA's Jet Propulsion Center (JPL) is where researchers dream up and build spacecraft to explore space from millions of miles awayincluding wheeled rovers that takephotos from the Martian surface:Tech Insider recently took a tour of JPL, which is abouta 15-minute drive from theCalifornia Institute of Technology (Caltech for short).Here's what we saw.NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is just 5 miles north of downtown Pasadena, California, close to the San Gabriel Mountains.It's a massive, 177-acre facility that rivals most college campuses. In fact, it's 17 acres larger than Disneyland.Source: JustDisney.comAn apt comparison, since this is kind of like the Disneyland of space exploration. Let's head inside.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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