A family of explorers Here comes a 50-foot-tall robot! But don't
worry, it's only out to explore the Universe. It is made up of
10 NASA spacecraft, gathered into a "Family of Explorers,"
skating down Pasadena's Colorado Boulevard in the 2005 Rose
Parade. The Rose Parade has happened every year on January 1st
(or 2nd, if the 1st is a Sunday) for the past 116 years in
Pasadena, California. It is seen on TV all around the world. The
first ever! "Family of Explorers" is the first Rose Parade float
ever made by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and
California Institute of Technology (Caltech), which manages JPL.
JPL and Caltech are located in Pasadena, so it's about time they
made a float! Their first-ever float won the newly created Crown
City Innovation Trophy for imagination and innovation to advance
the art of float design. The float salutes the space missions
managed by JPL and Caltech and the family of scientists,
professors, and researchers that made the missions possible. All
these spacecraft are curr