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NASA's 'Mohawk Guy' promises new hairdo for inauguration

NASA's most hair-stylish engineer is back.
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Activity lead Bobak Ferdowsi, who cuts his hair differently for each mission, works inside the Spaceflight Operations Facility for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California on August 5, 2012. The Curiosity robot is equipped with a nuclear-powered lab capable of vaporizing rocks and ingesting soil, measuring habitability, and potentially paving the way for human exploration, and was designed to assess whether Mars ever had an environment able to support small life forms called microbes. UPI/Brian van der Brug/pool
Activity lead Bobak Ferdowsi, who cuts his hair differently for each mission, works inside the Spaceflight Operations Facility for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California on August 5, 2012. The Curiosity robot is equipped with a nuclear-powered lab capable of vaporizing rocks and ingesting soil, measuring habitability, and potentially paving the way for human exploration, and was designed to assess whether Mars ever had an environment able to support small life forms called microbes. UPI/Brian van der Brug/pool 
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Updated Jan. 18, 2013 at 10:30 AM
Published: Jan. 18, 2013 at 10:15 AM

Remember Bobak Ferdowsi, the flight director at NASA who helped land the Curiosity rover on Mars and got a starry Mohawk to celebrate it? Well, he's back on the spotlight and has promised to sport another wild hairstyle for President Obama's second inauguration parade.

“It’s a surprise,” he said in an interview with Wired. "I can’t tell you [what it is], but it’s going to be something fun for the occasion, I think it’s going to be fun for everyone there.”

Ferdowsi's famous stars-and-stripes Mohawk stole the show during Curiosity's Mars landing Aug. 5 and earned the 33-year-old engineer a fan base of over 40,000 followers on Twitter.

In regards to his inauguration surprise, Ferdowsi refused to get into details.

“It’ll be something related to the event going on, that’s all I’m going to say,” he told Wired.

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