RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: FIRST IMAGES FROM CURIOSITY:LANDS ON MARS; TWITTER ERUPTS AS NEW CHAPTER IN SPACE EXPLORATION BEGINS

Sunday, August 05, 2012

FIRST IMAGES FROM CURIOSITY:LANDS ON MARS; TWITTER ERUPTS AS NEW CHAPTER IN SPACE EXPLORATION BEGINS

This is the FIRST IMAGE from MARS with CURIOSITY!

By Randy Economy
“NASA #MSL: Touchdown confirmed for @MarsCuriosity
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MarsCuriosity I’m safely on the surface of Mars. GALE CRATER I AM IN YOU!!! #MSL
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Curiosity has landed on the planet Mars, and a new chapter in space exploration has officially began.

The landing took place approximately 352 million miles (567 million kilometers), concluding a 36-week journey from Earth and touchdown was confirmed at 10:32 p.m. PST.

The first views from Curiosity will give NASA engineers a good idea of what surrounds Curiosity, as well as its location and tilt and in typical “Earth fashion” the social network site “Twitter” exploded with posts and comments.

“Ensuring that the rover is on stable ground is important before raising the rover’s mast,” said Mission Manager Jennifer Trosper at JPL. “We are using an entirely new landing system on this mission, so we are proceeding with caution.” Color pictures from the rover’s Mars Descent Imager, or MARDI, acquired as the rover descends to the Martian surface, will help pinpoint the rover’s location. Initial images from MARDI are expected to be released Aug. 6, the day after landing.

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You may know me from my role as the Senior Advisor and Official Media Spokesman for the Recall Gavin Newsom campaign that established a worldwide blitz of interviews. I conducted more than 2,200 media interviews on behalf of “The People’s Recall” during a 10-month period from November 2020 to September 2021. The iconic magazine Mother Jones in a dramatic feature article called me “A ‘Superhero Pirate’ Radio Host, (and) Gavin Newsom’s Strangest—and Most Dangerous—Threat. Meet Randy Economy, the man behind the effort to recall California’s governor.” I appeared on more than 330 media outlets around the world in my capacity with RecallGavin2020. Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, Newsmax, NBC Nightly News, ABC News, as well as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Politico, and dozens of other media outlets aired featured reports on my work on behalf of “The People’s Recall.” I am and will always consider myself to be a journalist. Sometimes I think I bleed ink. My talents as an Investigative Journalists in California earned me FIVE top awards from the prestigious Los Angeles Press Club in 2013, 2014, and 2016. I am tenacious. My reporting over the years has led to the prosecution of several elected officials in California. While working for a tiny community newspaper in Southeast Los Angeles County, I worked doggedly to expose the biggest public corruption case in Los Angeles County history when I unearthed a massive pay to play scheme inside the Assessor’s Office that led to the arrest of then Assessor John R. Noguez and four others. However, politics has been in my DNA since I was a child. I have worked on more than 300 political campaigns as a consultant and advisor since 1982 for candidates from all sides of the political spectrum including Democrats and Republicans, and even Libertarians. I am also a small business owner, serving as the President and CEO of Hot Water Studio & Production, LLC. My company works with media outlets across the state, nation, and world exposing public corruption via several new media platforms. I have also overcome personal challenges. I am legally blind with zero vision in my right eye and only 40 percent vision remaining in my left eye. I sometimes wear an eyepatch due to my failed vision. (Hence the nickname of “America’s Political Pirate.”