The thing is, he and his battalion weren't even supposed to be here, and that's one way to consider every thing that was about to happen as Kauzlarich, awake now, dressed now, made the short walk from his trailer to the battalion's operations center.

NPR: Excerpt: 'The Good Soldiers'

Edited and scored with the dramatic tension of a summer blockbuster trailer, NASA's put together a gripping short clip that dresses down Curiosity's mission to Mars for the layman.

ENGADGET: NASA's Seven Minutes of Terror: Curiosity's precarious Mars landing explained (video)

He said the project began as one of the short-form sketches Funny or Die is best known for: a spoof trailer for a Jobs biopic.

CNN: Funny or Die making spoof Steve Jobs biopic