'Will you marry me?' Twitter groupies want to walk down the aisle with NASA's 'Mohawk Guy' Bobak Ferdowsi

Mike Gallagher

Aug 9, 2012 - 17:13

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'Will you marry me?' Twitter groupies want to walk down the aisle with NASA's 'Mohawk Guy'

Bobak Ferdowsi, whose multicolored Mohawk gaered as much attention as the Mars landing he helped engineer, has gone from Inteet celebrity to husband material.

The rover Curiosity made its historic landing on Mars this week after a 36-week trip from Earth.

Ferdowsi, 32, and his wild hairdo became the subjects of fan art and blogs after photos from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory made the news. He went from having fewer than 200 Twitter followers to thousands oveight.

Now his female fans are stepping up and asking him to marry them.

“I know you've been busy, but will you marry me? Land something on Mars if the answer is yes,” Twitter user @amaeryllis wrote.

Another asked, “Will you marry me? Am I being too forward?”

“Sorry for proposing marriage, but the way you landed Curiosity on Mars made my nerdy side go wild,” Kirstie Hayes tweeted.

Yet another fan, @earlyspark, said she read that Ferdowsi was “getting random marriage proposals. Add me to that list plz.”

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Ferdowsi, has yet to accept any of his fans’ proposals. He wrote that he was “not ready for the attention, but happy to show it takes all types to make @MarsCuriosity! If only my coworkers would stop making fun of me.”

At least one of his co-workers was happy about the newfound interest in NASA.

“I am now getting messages from people asking for inside info on [Ferdowsi],” his fellow Curiosity engineer Steve Sell tweeted. “I'm famous-adjacent! The value of my just-down-the-hall office just went through the roof this week #MohawkGuy.”