Crespi’s CSF Students Visit JPL and Get Up Close Look at the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)

Members of Crespi’s California Scholarship Federation (CSF) toured the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena on Monday, November 21, 2011. Not only did students learn that JPL was founded by a couple of Cal-Tech students who liked firing off rockets, but JPL is responsible for several current inter-stellar research missions including the exploration of Mars.


The timing of the tour coincided Saturday’s (November 26) launch of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL). Crespi students were shown why this is the most ambitious mission yet and NASA hopes to discover if life ever existed on Mars. Click to read more about the MSL.




Pictured above: Crespi students learn about MSL from a JPL Engineer

Pictured below: Mr. Olson, Crespi’s Physics & Astronomy teacher in front of JPL’s Mission Control Center