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Bobak Ferdowsi, the mystery man who made waves over the summer for his rocker hairdo during NASA's Curiosity Rover landing on Mars, has quickly become an icon.
The 33-year-old is a system engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory with a jam-packed schedule.
Since he hit the big time during the rover landing in August, he's been to visit the White House during the state of the union address, walked in the inauguration parade, and even got to meet the First Lady Michelle Obama and the First Dog, Bo.
We've dug up a few interesting facts about the mystery "mohawk guy" that everyone wants to know about.
He's a California guy at heart.
His full name is Bobak Ferdowsi. He's 33-years-old, and lives in Pasadena. He's originally from the San Francisco Bay Area and still has family there.
He learned from a nobel laureate.
He earned his bachelor's degree in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from the University of Washington, and he went to MIT to get a master's degree in the same subject.
While he was a student at the University of Washington he did research under Nobel Laureate Hans Dehmelt in the Department of Physics.
He says his job is out of a movie.
He's the flight director of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Mission at the Jet Propulsion Lab in California, he's worked there since 2003.
He describes his job as similar to Ed Hariss's role in the movie Apollo 13.
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