NASA’s ‘Mohawk Guy’ Gets Galaxy of Marriage Proposals

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Gone are the days when a NASA control room would be filled with guys with buzz cuts and pocket protectors.

In 2012, it’s all about the Mohawk or, specifically, the Mohawk of one now very popular NASA employee, flight director Bobak Ferdowski.

When Ferdowski and his NASA colleagues watched the $2.5 billion Mars Curiosity rover land safely on the surface of the red planet early Monday morning after an eight month, 352-million-mile journey, cheers and applause broke out in the control room.

When TV cameras caught a close-up shot of Ferdowski, 32, and his Mohawk with star shapes buzzed in and all, cheers and applause broke out across the Internet, and the thundering hasn’t stopped since.

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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/08/nasas-mohawk-guy-gets-galaxy-of-marriage-proposals/

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1. How great is it that science nerds are now studs? /eom