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Mars program was a stake but perhaps a

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space science program at NASA and NASA's

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reputation itself the vehicle is now at

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everything that you've worked for for so

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many years is on the line expect a

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later temporary to the men detected

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in Las expected retro rocket ignition on

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my mark mark waiting confirmations that

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think there were two almost simultaneous

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emotions one was relief the other was

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pride in the team I mean it what we do

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is truly a team effort to take so many

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people to make these missions work it

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which means right side up it was a

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thrill beyond thrills not just actually

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witnessing what was taking place but to

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eyes of these amazing individuals when

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those first pictures came back everyone

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was so overwhelmed and they were so much

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to that great line that if you don't

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take risks you're not going to learn

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anything and a good evening from a

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flight second opportunity this time we

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Governor Schwarzenegger was there Vice

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Schiff what was I think really most fun

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for for the non-scientists in the room

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people that had devoted the last several

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years of their life to this and seeing

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their enjoyment and their excitement and

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stoic scientific types not given to

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our understanding in Mars and a new way

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to explore planetary surfaces with with

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Rovers so we also help to stimulate the

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space program in other direction holy

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smokes when our children and

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grandchildren bring home that science

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book where it says you know there is

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evidence of liquid water on Mars to know

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that you helped build and operate and

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direct the rover to that spot yeah that

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but even beyond the science the success

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of the Mars rovers does something for

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the American spirit perhaps the most

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important thing is the Mars rovers have

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a life of their own not just

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scientifically in terms of school kids

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of the country with the American people

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that nobody else on earth is that we've

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how many time I took my car to repair

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over the last five years and here we

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have these Rovers still working but

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first good afternoon and I want to say a

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few words about the rover's or the Mars

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rover by not talking very much about

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them and what I want to do is to put in

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perspective how do they fit in our whole

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picture of Mars exploration you may not

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remember because many of you are

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relatively young that we started

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attempts to explore Mars 44 years ago

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there might be a couple of you who were

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here at that time and that first attempt

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was with Mariner 3 and some of you

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remember that Meredith 3 did not work

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was a shield you know on the top of the

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rocket and it went down into the ocean

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months later and it looked like the moon

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it looked like very there is nothing

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exciting about it it was just craters

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and so on and it's amazing you look at

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it now after we flew the vicus re first

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of a series of mariners Mariner 3 4 6 &

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polar lander which did not you know work

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opportunity now and we have a completely

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different picture of what Mars look like

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it's a very live planet in geologic

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terms we had our good days and bad days

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were heartbreaking experiences but we

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learned from them and here we have our

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nation has these two Rovers on Mars

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which have been operating for five years

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six months well what's in my mind what's

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exciting that in this machine all of you

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your emotion your love into them and

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that's what we are seeing all that

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advances that have occurred as

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the result of that they effectively they

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are really extension of us their

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extension of each and every one of us if

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anything marks differently these Rovers

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on other thing it's a perspectives they

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provide I mean we have spacecraft which

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are in orbit around different planets

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these Rovers because they have two eyes

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like our eyes and they move around like

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we move basically every day they give us

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a new perspective of what's on another

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planet as if we were you know walking

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you know on that planet now I have no

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idea how much they they they will be

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with us but in a sense they will be with

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us forever because we really have lived

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operations for the excitement of these

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American icons they represent some of

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the best American values being curious

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borderie reaching to new frontiers doing

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hard things like Kennedy would say and

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doing mighty things like Teddy Roosevelt

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extension of us you know have been doing

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think about them there is not a single

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day that I don't think about all of you

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think about those six minutes of Terror

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see this video and i can tell you or

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these videos and I show them almost on

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the average twice a week and talks that

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couple of weeks ago you know my heart

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beats pizza in almost tears come to my

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eye I mean Adam uncontrollable you know

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to see the excitement and and what

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people did and the emotion which came

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done that so I want to congratulate each

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the scientist who worked with us to the

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local official to the national officials

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five years and hopefully we'll be taking

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pride about what would be happening over

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that who are doing now before I step

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to recognize a number of officials that

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are here and either they are here or

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they will be coming shortly first I want

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to start with supervisor Mike on tone of

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it as iam sitting there who represent

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the JPL the Los Angeles you know a los

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angeles board of supervisors we have a

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mere stephen del curso here is the mayor

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of the city of luck and yada I don't see

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bill bogaard all that bill just came

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sure so this is Mayor Bill Bogart of the

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City of Pasadena and I always say we are

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so important that we are part of two

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cities here not many places can can

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claim that we have representing

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congressman david dreier marc marquez

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harmsen is here and representing

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to have two congressmen who represent us

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thank you for coming and representing

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introduce a present project manager who

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is really making sure that the reader

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offers are our roving all over the place

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standing in the lunch line with Pete I

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senior and Pete was asking me how it was

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phenomenal was outstanding and there was

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the lunch line her turned around and

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said yeah it's easy when someone hands

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people the teams that operate these

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Rovers and keep them going every day are

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phenomenal so my job is indeed an easy

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about Wow who would have thought they

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would lasted five years for me actually

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the question is really who would have

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thought the adventure would have been

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this great I mean it is really a

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phenomenal accomplishment and yet

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there's more to come you know we've

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climbed mountains we've descended into

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killing dust storms and you know it's

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amazing just the discoveries that have

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this alien world you know all of you

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undertaking and all of you must take

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credit for this fine accomplishment so

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please give yourself a hand at this time

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now of course thousands of thousands of

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people have contributed to this mission

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everyone but I would like to acknowledge

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ask the previous project managers Pete I

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senior Richard Cook and Jim Erickson to

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stand and be acknowledged please

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watchful eye on our two intrepid

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explorers Phil varghese Jim Erickson

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thank you very much and join me in

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acknowledging the to Mars program

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managers that husband this project

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during the development phase and through

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the numerous extended missions Bruce

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naderi fuke Lee please stand and be

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thank you all very much now join me in

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this experience of spirit is something

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that I've really kind of integrated into

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my whole identity you know this has

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become part of what I do and it looked

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at the very beginning of the mission

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like this was going to be something that

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I got to do for very brief time for

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three months and that was terrific and

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it was unique and special I was really

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looking forward to it and I never in my

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wildest imagination believed it was

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going to go on for five years spirit

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really has had to have a lot of spirit

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to to keep going it's been the little

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Rover that could in a way it's had to

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work very hard for all of its

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discoveries shortly after spirit landed

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we had a problem we lost contact with

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the rover for a couple of days this was

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a particularly scary time because not

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only had we lost contact with one of the

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Rovers and we didn't know why we had

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another Rover coming in for a landing

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hardener heels and we didn't know if

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whatever it happened in the first Rover

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was going to happen to the second one it

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turned out that we were able to regain

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control of spirit she had filled up her

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own memory system or the equivalent of

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her hard disk and she couldn't boot up

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and she started booting up and said oh

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look my hard disk is full I can't boot

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up let me try rebooting and so she was

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basically just sitting there on Mars

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punching her own reboot button until we

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finally came along and figured out what

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was going on were able to get her to

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stop one of spirits very dramatic

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challenges was when she was racing the

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clock for her first trying to get to her

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first winter haven to try to get to a

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hill where she could point her solar

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panels directly toward the Sun he

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survived for the winter and she was

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already behind a little bit behind

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schedule and she was racing across these

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Plains toward the hill and as she was on

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her way her right front wheel which have

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been giving us some trouble finally

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stopped working and so now instead of

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a six-wheeled rover we had it over with

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five wheels and an anchor it ended up

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having to drive backwards because it's a

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lot easier to pull an anchor than to

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push one but naturally since its it's

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built to have very good traction it

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basically is digging into the ground and

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digging this trench behind us and as we

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dig this trench we're able to see things

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that are normally invisible things that

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are under the surface one thing that we

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seem to be finding almost anywhere we're

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digging this trench are these widespread

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deposits of various kinds of salts and

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minerals they look this brilliant white

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or yellow and the color images and

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that's because they're either sulphur or

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silica or salts of various kinds and the

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really important thing about these

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minerals and salts in particular is it's

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the only way they form is with water so

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that the fact that we're finding these

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salt is real evidence that there was hot

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water over a very widespread area where

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spirit is exploring right now not just a

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little isolated pockets Mars really

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could have been a place that supported

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life and without these Rovers driving

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over these vast distances far beyond

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their expectations we would never have

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known that even on Mars life can give

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you lemons but you make lemonade out of

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that in spirits case you know she turned

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dragon that right front wheel into a

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great scientific discovery winter is a

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harsher time for spirit she's up on the

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top of home plate and we were scooting

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across the top of home plate as fast as

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we could toward the north face so we

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could tilt our solar panels as directly

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as possible toward the Sun and as we

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were doing that she went over a little

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rise and down into a pit which we now

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call Tartarus in this case not only was

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she figuratively on the edge she was

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also literally on the edge because the

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only way to escape from that pit was to

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drive right up along the edge of home

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plate with absolutely no margin for

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error whatsoever and kind of drive up

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and around this feature and then off to

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where she was trying to get to and where

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she could be safe for the winter

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certainly the the biggest thing that

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stands out and spirits whole mission is

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her view from the top of husband Hill

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this little rover that wasn't ever

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really designed to climb over anything

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bigger than her own wheels had now

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climbed a hill the height of the Statue

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of Liberty and was standing there at the

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top of that hill and took this beautiful

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360 degree panorama and just saw the

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most beautiful striking hilly landscape

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with this spectacular orange sky and the

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beautiful rust colored ground and it

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just sort of put the whole project in

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perspective for me this was what we were

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there for to explore and go out and see

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new places that have never been seen by

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human eyes Mars is pretty harsh place

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we've had dust storms before we have

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really low power situations in winter

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we've had other small glitches that have

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caused us some tense moments but spirit

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seems to always find a way of turning

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some kind of adversity into something

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positive it was only by outlasting her

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design specifications and never giving

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up and absolutely never you know letting

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Mars get her down that she ended up

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it is now my distinct pleasure to

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introduce the principal investigator for

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the Mars exploration Rovers dr. Steve

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this thing hasn't turned out anything

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like the way I expected it to when we

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first proposed what eventually became a

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miar to NASA it really was nothing like

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what this mission has become we all

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remember the pictures of the Viking

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landing sites and the Pathfinder

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lighting sites these flat planes strewn

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with boulders the boulders all kind of

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looked alike but you hope that maybe

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they were different from one another

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somehow and the idea was really very

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simple to take a set of fairly

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straightforward geological tools put

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them on a vehicle get them to one of

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those places and give them a few months

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to drive around from one Boulder to

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another see if there's some diversity

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there and try to piece together what the

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place might once have been like and do

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this for about three months or so and

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you've done a darn good geologic

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experiment it wasn't the rover mission

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of my dreams but it would have been good

440
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and I was proud to have been associated

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with it what we've gotten has been so

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much beyond the rover mission of my

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dreams I still I still can't believe

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what's happening I mean you know the

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story we've been there for five years

446
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we've driven 20 20 kilometers climbed

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the mountains gone into the craters it

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has been in the literal sense of the

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phrase the adventure of a lifetime

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remember when we got to the summit a

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husband he'll that view from the top you

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remember when we put remember the first

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day that we pulled up to the rim of

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endurance crater it was like pulling up

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to the edge of the Grand Canyon it was

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just phenomenal and you know I've

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thought a lot about why did this happen

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you know why are they still going after

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five years and a lot of people would

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point to the fact that we have had some

461
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lucky breaks I mean when you have a wind

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gust that totally cleans off your solar

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arrays when the rover is about to die

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okay things are going your way

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but i'm a firm believer that you make

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your own luck the reason the rover was

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still alive when that wind gust happened

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hundreds of Sol's into the mission was

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that a remarkable team had built some

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absolutely remarkable hardware I tried

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once to make a list of the names of all

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the people who have worked on this

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project there were more than 4,000 names

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on that list and I missed an awful lot

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of people it is a team that has

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accomplished what I thought was

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impossible it is a team that is united

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by many things but above all a passion

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for what we do and it's just such a joy

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to be part of this group and I will

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treasure it for the rest of my days you

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know when something like this happens

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when you have a celebration of five

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years on Mars it gets you thinking you

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know what is our missions legacy what is

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going to be what's going to be its place

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in history and you know I'm probably the

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worst guy in the world to try to answer

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that question I'm too close to it but

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there are a couple things that I hope

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for one of course is our scientific

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discoveries and what we have learned and

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continue to learn about Mars but the

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other one I think actually in the end

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might be even more important and I kind

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of hope that it will be like a number of

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people on this project I grew up during

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the 60s watching television and watching

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mercury and Gemini and Apollo as a kid

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and you know just dream that have

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growing up and send in space ships

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tomorrow something and I've actually

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gotten to do that with the finest team

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in the world and what I really hope is

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that people now who are in high school

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and middle school and elementary school

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are watching spirit and watching

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opportunity and watching a bunch of

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geeks jumping up and down like they just

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won the Super Bowl okay and looking at

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that and saying damn that's cool but I

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bet I could do even better if we've

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accomplished that we've accomplished the

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most

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and now we'll have a short video tribute

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to opportunity please I was an optimist

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from the very beginning and that I knew

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the Rovers were well built and that as

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long as we survived landing that we had

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a very good chance of an extended

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mission for opportunity things went well

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from the very beginning when we landed

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right within a short distance of the

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rover was exposed bedrock or when the

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scientists examined that bedrock in

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detail they determined that it was laid

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down in water from three and a half to

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four billion years ago so this was the

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first evidence of ancient surface water

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on Mars it's something that the

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scientists were looking for and it was

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right there where they landed so they

533
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couldn't have asked for a better spot

534
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well I think the greatest accomplishment

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of Eagle crater was they saw things that

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look like blueberries and these are

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things that are little tiny balls of

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material that looked like something that

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was produced in the presence of water

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and so this is one of the first

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indications that there had been water on

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Mars in the past

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so I think that was one of the greatest

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00:26:26,120 --> 00:26:24,059
accomplishments craters are great or the

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geologist because they're like time

546
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:27,450
tunnels there are big holes in the

547
00:26:31,250 --> 00:26:29,610
ground by going down into the crater

548
00:26:32,930 --> 00:26:31,260
you're essentially going back in time

549
00:26:35,659 --> 00:26:32,940
because you know the older rocks or

550
00:26:38,509 --> 00:26:35,669
towards the bottom opportunity is the

551
00:26:41,210 --> 00:26:38,519
crater exploring rover on this side of

552
00:26:44,269 --> 00:26:41,220
the planet endurance was exciting

553
00:26:45,919 --> 00:26:44,279
because this is the first big crater we

554
00:26:47,930 --> 00:26:45,929
adventure that's something we never

555
00:26:49,419 --> 00:26:47,940
thought we would ever do with a rover

556
00:26:52,009 --> 00:26:49,429
because it was considered too dangerous

557
00:26:55,610 --> 00:26:52,019
so we actually had to do some additional

558
00:26:57,710 --> 00:26:55,620
work here on earth to verify that it was

559
00:26:59,750 --> 00:26:57,720
safe not only to go down into the crater

560
00:27:01,850 --> 00:26:59,760
but that we could get back out again at

561
00:27:03,830 --> 00:27:01,860
times we've reached slopes about 30

562
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:03,840
degrees and slightly higher it's

563
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:05,610
actually hard for people to walk on

564
00:27:11,419 --> 00:27:08,610
30-degree slopes we had a lot of close

565
00:27:12,980 --> 00:27:11,429
calls where you know we'd be driving a

566
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:12,990
particular location we'd start sliding

567
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:14,850
then we try to go back up and we'd slide

568
00:27:18,980 --> 00:27:17,010
and it's a certain point for if you keep

569
00:27:21,409 --> 00:27:18,990
on sliding you know you may never get

570
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:21,419
out it was a little nerve-wracking but

571
00:27:25,580 --> 00:27:23,730
they determined it was worth going in

572
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:25,590
there because scientifically was so

573
00:27:33,019 --> 00:27:29,010
interesting our big crater was Victoria

574
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:33,029
a half mile diameter crater that took us

575
00:27:39,460 --> 00:27:36,690
about two years to to reach and it was

576
00:27:42,350 --> 00:27:39,470
exciting because we've never been to

577
00:27:44,690 --> 00:27:42,360
crater quite that large and we had to

578
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:44,700
find at first a safe place to go into

579
00:27:48,740 --> 00:27:47,010
this crater well for us actually it was

580
00:27:51,230 --> 00:27:48,750
a little scary to be perfectly honest

581
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:51,240
imagine going to the edge of the Grand

582
00:27:55,310 --> 00:27:53,250
Canyon and looking over and

583
00:27:58,070 --> 00:27:55,320
here you are you're commanding a rover

584
00:27:59,690 --> 00:27:58,080
to go to the very edge and as a mission

585
00:28:01,910 --> 00:27:59,700
manager you're responsible for this

586
00:28:03,830 --> 00:28:01,920
health and safety of this Rover and so

587
00:28:05,120 --> 00:28:03,840
the scientists say go closer go closer

588
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:05,130
because we want to see what's at the

589
00:28:08,630 --> 00:28:06,810
very edge you have to be very careful

590
00:28:13,370 --> 00:28:08,640
about getting as close to the edge as

591
00:28:15,110 --> 00:28:13,380
you can we're not falling over the

592
00:28:18,290 --> 00:28:15,120
greatest threat to opportunities

593
00:28:20,090 --> 00:28:18,300
survival was a global Martian dust storm

594
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:20,100
and these are massive storms maybe they

595
00:28:24,980 --> 00:28:22,770
block out the Sun it was quite a

596
00:28:27,860 --> 00:28:24,990
surprise because you know we hadn't seen

597
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:27,870
anything of that magnitude before and so

598
00:28:32,540 --> 00:28:30,930
it was it was very stressful at that

599
00:28:34,850 --> 00:28:32,550
time and we add that was actually right

600
00:28:37,550 --> 00:28:34,860
before we started our ingress into

601
00:28:39,620 --> 00:28:37,560
victoria crater that was very scary

602
00:28:41,570 --> 00:28:39,630
because during that period you know the

603
00:28:44,660 --> 00:28:41,580
cloud got very dark and since we're a

604
00:28:46,730 --> 00:28:44,670
solar powered vehicle our power got very

605
00:28:48,770 --> 00:28:46,740
low so there was about a two-week period

606
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:48,780
where it was touch-and-go every day and

607
00:28:52,790 --> 00:28:50,970
we didn't know whether we've come in the

608
00:28:55,460 --> 00:28:52,800
next day and the road would still be

609
00:28:57,530 --> 00:28:55,470
there but it rode out the storm it got

610
00:29:04,330 --> 00:28:57,540
through it the skies cleared and the

611
00:29:09,139 --> 00:29:06,620
opportunity will be leaving Victoria

612
00:29:12,409 --> 00:29:09,149
crater and heading to an even larger

613
00:29:14,630 --> 00:29:12,419
crater this is called endeavour and it's

614
00:29:18,110 --> 00:29:14,640
20 kilometers in diameter so it's about

615
00:29:20,060 --> 00:29:18,120
12 miles and size and it's about 20

616
00:29:21,799 --> 00:29:20,070
kilometers away so you have another 12

617
00:29:24,620 --> 00:29:21,809
miles in distance so it's actually

618
00:29:26,810 --> 00:29:24,630
further away that all the driving that

619
00:29:29,659 --> 00:29:26,820
opportunity has done in the past five

620
00:29:31,700 --> 00:29:29,669
years so it's a very distant objective

621
00:29:33,830 --> 00:29:31,710
it's a very ambitious objective but

622
00:29:37,340 --> 00:29:33,840
scientifically that's the direction to

623
00:29:40,639 --> 00:29:37,350
head even if we don't reach this new

624
00:29:43,070 --> 00:29:40,649
larger giant crater the science that we

625
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:43,080
can do along the way will add to the

626
00:29:47,629 --> 00:29:44,970
Martian history books and will extend

627
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:47,639
our historical understanding of the

628
00:29:55,490 --> 00:29:53,010
geology on Mars I think the the great

629
00:29:58,460 --> 00:29:55,500
contribution that these Rovers have made

630
00:30:01,399 --> 00:29:58,470
is that they have made Mars a familiar

631
00:30:02,509 --> 00:30:01,409
place the images that we take are taken

632
00:30:04,399 --> 00:30:02,519
very much with a human perspective

633
00:30:06,919 --> 00:30:04,409
because the cameras on the rover write

634
00:30:09,500 --> 00:30:06,929
up about eye level for a person standing

635
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:09,510
on Mars and so you get the the

636
00:30:13,299 --> 00:30:11,010
perspective as if you were the air

637
00:30:16,190 --> 00:30:13,309
yourself looking over these great vistas

638
00:30:18,500 --> 00:30:16,200
with five years of operation for for

639
00:30:20,419 --> 00:30:18,510
both Rovers and all the images you know

640
00:30:22,810 --> 00:30:20,429
the over quarter million images that

641
00:30:25,519 --> 00:30:22,820
have been returned have really made Mars

642
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:25,529
seem like our neighborhood it's no

643
00:30:32,149 --> 00:30:29,250
longer an 8 a-4 nor alien or distant

644
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:32,159
world it's now a familiar place that has

645
00:30:37,269 --> 00:30:35,250
earth-like characteristics we love the

646
00:30:40,039 --> 00:30:37,279
rover's as if they're our own children

647
00:30:41,690 --> 00:30:40,049
because it's gone through so much it's

648
00:30:43,269 --> 00:30:41,700
accomplished so much it's gone through

649
00:30:46,730 --> 00:30:43,279
hardships it's gone through incredible

650
00:30:48,470 --> 00:30:46,740
victories and so you know we love the

651
00:30:50,930 --> 00:30:48,480
rover's we care about them we worry

652
00:30:52,789 --> 00:30:50,940
about them we're excited when it makes

653
00:31:10,800 --> 00:30:52,799
these discoveries they're amazing

654
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:13,240
near the end of the prime mission back

655
00:31:17,890 --> 00:31:15,410
in april two thousand for the rover's

656
00:31:20,350 --> 00:31:17,900
gained a new admirer someone literally

657
00:31:22,930 --> 00:31:20,360
out of this world commander mike fink

658
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:22,940
had just begun a six-month tour on the

659
00:31:27,010 --> 00:31:25,010
international space station to be

660
00:31:29,170 --> 00:31:27,020
properly equipped one of our own Jim

661
00:31:31,270 --> 00:31:29,180
Rice provided him with a pair of 3d

662
00:31:33,460 --> 00:31:31,280
glasses in his personal kit so he could

663
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:33,470
view the rover anaglyphs while on orbit

664
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:36,050
now fast-forward five years and today

665
00:31:39,930 --> 00:31:38,090
Mike Fink is again on board the

666
00:31:43,210 --> 00:31:39,940
International Space Station commanding

667
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:43,220
expedition 18 and he sends us this

668
00:31:49,780 --> 00:31:48,170
tribute hi I'm Mike Fink come in to the

669
00:31:53,410 --> 00:31:49,790
International Space Station expedition

670
00:31:55,540 --> 00:31:53,420
team and on behalf of my crew and the

671
00:31:57,580 --> 00:31:55,550
entire international space station team

672
00:31:59,520 --> 00:31:57,590
I'd like to extend our hearty

673
00:32:03,520 --> 00:31:59,530
congratulations to the Mars exploration

674
00:32:08,140 --> 00:32:03,530
routine for your 50-year anniversary on

675
00:32:10,540 --> 00:32:08,150
Mars I'd like to recognize and say hello

676
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:10,550
to see squires the principal

677
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:12,890
investigator project manager Jon Callas

678
00:32:17,230 --> 00:32:15,650
and project scientist mannered and all

679
00:32:20,010 --> 00:32:17,240
of the other Sciences all the other

680
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:20,020
engineers other technicians the

681
00:32:24,460 --> 00:32:22,010
administrative assistants everybody

682
00:32:26,950 --> 00:32:24,470
helped out on this grand adventure that

683
00:32:31,300 --> 00:32:26,960
is really paving the way for me to go to

684
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:31,310
the stars see I done incredible work and

685
00:32:35,650 --> 00:32:33,050
here aboard the International Space

686
00:32:38,740 --> 00:32:35,660
Station we're also working towards a

687
00:32:41,740 --> 00:32:38,750
manatee going on to the start we're

688
00:32:44,140 --> 00:32:41,750
really really glad to be on the sinking

689
00:32:56,099 --> 00:32:44,150
so congratulations for the International

690
00:33:00,759 --> 00:32:58,629
among our many special guests here today

691
00:33:04,839 --> 00:33:00,769
is someone who helped bring about the

692
00:33:06,479 --> 00:33:04,849
Space Age he's a space pioneering not in

693
00:33:09,459 --> 00:33:06,489
the building of rockets or spacecraft

694
00:33:11,139 --> 00:33:09,469
but in the imagining of them in the

695
00:33:14,049 --> 00:33:11,149
other ways who might experience the vast

696
00:33:15,789 --> 00:33:14,059
cosmos around us about the same time

697
00:33:18,219 --> 00:33:15,799
that JPL was coming into being many

698
00:33:20,619 --> 00:33:18,229
years ago just a few miles away here in

699
00:33:22,359 --> 00:33:20,629
Los Angeles this pioneer was in the

700
00:33:25,209 --> 00:33:22,369
process of becoming one of our nation's

701
00:33:27,190 --> 00:33:25,219
most gifted writers is one of those

702
00:33:30,069 --> 00:33:27,200
writers whose writing has changed the

703
00:33:31,899 --> 00:33:30,079
way people think he has more than 500

704
00:33:33,489 --> 00:33:31,909
published works exemplifying the

705
00:33:36,579 --> 00:33:33,499
american imagination at its most

706
00:33:39,839 --> 00:33:36,589
creative his best-known works the

707
00:33:43,449 --> 00:33:39,849
Martian Chronicles the illustrated man

708
00:33:46,509 --> 00:33:43,459
Fahrenheit 451 and something wicked this

709
00:33:50,019 --> 00:33:46,519
way comes our masterpieces is one of the

710
00:34:23,930 --> 00:33:50,029
truly classic authors of our time please

711
00:34:33,210 --> 00:34:28,859
floors yours when I was very young I

712
00:34:36,869 --> 00:34:33,220
lived in walking in the Illinois next to

713
00:34:40,669 --> 00:34:36,879
one of my favorite uncles and he had all

714
00:34:43,859 --> 00:34:40,679
the Martian books a big rice burroughs I

715
00:34:47,129 --> 00:34:43,869
should go over to his house and borrow

716
00:34:50,970 --> 00:34:47,139
these books and take them home and read

717
00:34:54,950 --> 00:34:50,980
them when I was 12 years old I decided

718
00:34:58,560 --> 00:34:54,960
it was going to be a writer I moved to

719
00:35:01,140 --> 00:34:58,570
Tucson Arizona and lived on Lowell

720
00:35:07,050 --> 00:35:01,150
Avenue you can't do better than that can

721
00:35:10,470 --> 00:35:07,060
you as a personal law and the drawings

722
00:35:15,270 --> 00:35:10,480
of scaparelli and I fell in love with

723
00:35:18,839 --> 00:35:15,280
Mars I read a book the gods of mars by

724
00:35:21,780 --> 00:35:18,849
edgar rice burroughs and it needed a

725
00:35:26,069 --> 00:35:21,790
sequel I didn't have the money to buy

726
00:35:30,210 --> 00:35:26,079
the seagull so wheres covers old I wrote

727
00:35:31,970 --> 00:35:30,220
a sequel to the gods of mars that's the

728
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:31,980
very first thing they wrote about

729
00:35:42,300 --> 00:35:37,690
landing on Mars and saving DJ Thoris the

730
00:35:45,599 --> 00:35:42,310
wife of John Carter so you see my life

731
00:35:49,790 --> 00:35:45,609
has been spent on Mars for the very

732
00:35:53,700 --> 00:35:49,800
first and when I was in my teens and

733
00:35:58,309 --> 00:35:53,710
when I was that 30 years old i published

734
00:36:01,890 --> 00:35:58,319
the Martian Chronicles and all is Huxley

735
00:36:05,430 --> 00:36:01,900
the great English writer called me to

736
00:36:10,319 --> 00:36:05,440
his house one day fatigue we're 30 years

737
00:36:12,930 --> 00:36:10,329
old and he said mr. Bradbury do you know

738
00:36:16,770 --> 00:36:12,940
what you've done do you know what you

739
00:36:20,579 --> 00:36:16,780
are I said what am I he said you're a

740
00:36:25,260 --> 00:36:20,589
poet you're opposed you've written about

741
00:36:27,839 --> 00:36:25,270
Mars but it's poetry for God's sake this

742
00:36:31,829 --> 00:36:27,849
book is going to be around forever and

743
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:31,839
to have all exactly the writer brave new

744
00:36:35,050 --> 00:36:32,450
worlds

745
00:36:38,319 --> 00:36:35,060
say this to me I couldn't believe it

746
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:38,329
because I didn't realize all during my

747
00:36:44,650 --> 00:36:41,690
30s I was writing about the future so

748
00:36:51,010 --> 00:36:44,660
completely I was so madly in love with

749
00:36:55,300 --> 00:36:51,020
Mars so many years later I came out to

750
00:37:03,250 --> 00:36:55,310
Jet Propulsion lab when we had the first

751
00:37:07,540 --> 00:37:03,260
landing and in March or 1971 and instead

752
00:37:11,650 --> 00:37:07,550
of all night watching the screen waiting

753
00:37:16,030 --> 00:37:11,660
for the film's to come on projecting our

754
00:37:19,390 --> 00:37:16,040
first images of Mars and I noticed a man

755
00:37:22,990 --> 00:37:19,400
standing behind me I was afraid to speak

756
00:37:27,190 --> 00:37:23,000
to my first but I finally did he was

757
00:37:31,900 --> 00:37:27,200
Werner von Braun Wernher von Braun is

758
00:37:34,510 --> 00:37:31,910
the two halves of the destiny of man he

759
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:34,520
is the Living metaphor of the dark and

760
00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:37,970
the light he's the man that invented the

761
00:37:44,770 --> 00:37:41,690
v2 rocket to destroyed London and killed

762
00:37:48,339 --> 00:37:44,780
people but it's also the man who helped

763
00:37:52,510 --> 00:37:48,349
invent the rocket to take us to the moon

764
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:52,520
and to take us to Mars so I called him

765
00:37:59,980 --> 00:37:56,450
over and he signed an envelope for me

766
00:38:03,790 --> 00:37:59,990
and I have it here and he spoke well of

767
00:38:08,079 --> 00:38:03,800
me and the influence of my book on his

768
00:38:10,839 --> 00:38:08,089
being and inventor of the rocket so he

769
00:38:15,460 --> 00:38:10,849
was there all night with me the night of

770
00:38:18,430 --> 00:38:15,470
our first landing on Mars in the early

771
00:38:22,450 --> 00:38:18,440
morning the first images began to come

772
00:38:27,970 --> 00:38:22,460
through trust of the planet Mars and at

773
00:38:31,599 --> 00:38:27,980
noon the ABC TV people put me on TV to

774
00:38:34,569 --> 00:38:31,609
interview me about this landing and Roy

775
00:38:37,599 --> 00:38:34,579
deal the announcer said to me mr.

776
00:38:40,240 --> 00:38:37,609
Bradbury how does it feel as we've

777
00:38:43,420 --> 00:38:40,250
landed on Mars and there are no cities

778
00:38:50,710 --> 00:38:43,430
there and there are no Martians

779
00:38:53,799 --> 00:38:50,720
I said you are ridiculous the cities

780
00:38:57,490 --> 00:38:53,809
don't count is the Martians that counts

781
00:39:09,400 --> 00:38:57,500
and from this day on we are the

782
00:39:16,910 --> 00:39:12,859
so I said shut up and get the hell out

783
00:39:21,380 --> 00:39:16,920
of here and I told boy Neil to go to

784
00:39:24,319 --> 00:39:21,390
hell because I was there weeping but I

785
00:39:30,079 --> 00:39:24,329
cried all night long was wonderful and

786
00:39:32,839 --> 00:39:30,089
then back in nineteen sixty-nine I was

787
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:32,849
in London tonight we landed on the moon

788
00:39:41,150 --> 00:39:37,410
and David Frost asked me to come over to

789
00:39:44,390 --> 00:39:41,160
his show to be interviewed on TV to be

790
00:39:47,240 --> 00:39:44,400
seen by millions of people to celebrate

791
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:47,250
the landing on the moon so i got there

792
00:39:54,019 --> 00:39:50,010
at eight thirty at night then in July

793
00:39:57,490 --> 00:39:54,029
and we landed on the moon and David

794
00:40:01,490 --> 00:39:57,500
Frost made fun of the whole thing

795
00:40:04,970 --> 00:40:01,500
McMillan the prime minister of London

796
00:40:10,089 --> 00:40:04,980
was on and david frost mage fun of him

797
00:40:13,069 --> 00:40:10,099
and he made front of the astronauts

798
00:40:16,279 --> 00:40:13,079
stepping out on the Rockets are we

799
00:40:20,059 --> 00:40:16,289
getting ready to step out and land on

800
00:40:23,900 --> 00:40:20,069
the moon for the first time and round

801
00:40:26,329 --> 00:40:23,910
845 that night he said now I'm gradually

802
00:40:29,029 --> 00:40:26,339
introduced to you a great American

803
00:40:31,940 --> 00:40:29,039
talent he's going to speak about landing

804
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:31,950
on the moon and he said I thought he was

805
00:40:43,099 --> 00:40:35,210
talking about me he's in hairiest

806
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:43,109
Engelbert Humperdinck I said Jesus

807
00:40:53,599 --> 00:40:48,450
Christ Engelbert Humperdinck how stupid

808
00:40:57,319 --> 00:40:53,609
can you get so I ran out out of the

809
00:41:00,109 --> 00:40:57,329
television room ran out the parking lot

810
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:00,119
and the producer followed me and said

811
00:41:05,839 --> 00:41:03,210
what are you doing out here I said I'm

812
00:41:09,470 --> 00:41:05,849
leaving this show that man is a stupid

813
00:41:11,349 --> 00:41:09,480
idiot he doesn't realize this is the

814
00:41:14,210 --> 00:41:11,359
greatest night in the history of mankind

815
00:41:17,059 --> 00:41:14,220
we've been waiting for millions of years

816
00:41:20,359 --> 00:41:17,069
should go to the moon and we're here now

817
00:41:21,309 --> 00:41:20,369
he should be celebrating give me a test

818
00:41:25,930 --> 00:41:21,319
again

819
00:41:29,589 --> 00:41:25,940
me out of here so I drove across London

820
00:41:33,459 --> 00:41:29,599
and I appeared on a show with Walter

821
00:41:37,359 --> 00:41:33,469
Cronkite @midnight until stop seen by

822
00:41:41,279 --> 00:41:37,369
millions of people and I spoke of how I

823
00:41:44,529 --> 00:41:41,289
felt about landing on the moon it was a

824
00:41:47,229 --> 00:41:44,539
fantastic broadcast I brought a copy

825
00:41:50,109 --> 00:41:47,239
with each at night and you see it in the

826
00:41:53,769 --> 00:41:50,119
most but when I was done with that

827
00:41:57,390 --> 00:41:53,779
broadcast instead of taking a cab back

828
00:42:00,549 --> 00:41:57,400
to my hotel in london i walked across

829
00:42:04,299 --> 00:42:00,559
london all night long the night we

830
00:42:07,569 --> 00:42:04,309
landed on the moon I worked with joy I

831
00:42:09,930 --> 00:42:07,579
couldn't believe I was only 48 years old

832
00:42:13,509 --> 00:42:09,940
I thought I would be an old man i

833
00:42:16,509 --> 00:42:13,519
thought i'd be 80 or 90 min add another

834
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:16,519
moon Here I am only 48 I couldn't

835
00:42:22,059 --> 00:42:18,890
believe it he was wonderful so in the

836
00:42:24,910 --> 00:42:22,069
morning i connect him hotel there's a

837
00:42:28,630 --> 00:42:24,920
tabloid newspaper I didn't front I

838
00:42:31,569 --> 00:42:28,640
looked it said Neil Armstrong walks on

839
00:42:38,170 --> 00:42:31,579
the moon at dawn and the headline above

840
00:42:49,359 --> 00:42:38,180
his Bradbury walks at midnight the next

841
00:42:55,839 --> 00:42:52,939
now go do the right now you got on come

842
00:43:05,059 --> 00:42:55,849
in it right you got a minute more yeah

843
00:43:12,469 --> 00:43:05,069
okay thank you you finish yeah I want

844
00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:12,479
him to tell my god once you get it will

845
00:43:22,660 --> 00:43:16,249
be shown later it'll be show later okay

846
00:43:35,980 --> 00:43:33,370
ray bradbury our keynote speaker today

847
00:43:38,260 --> 00:43:35,990
is an Emmy award-winning 26-year

848
00:43:40,060 --> 00:43:38,270
broadcast news veteran who successfully

849
00:43:42,220 --> 00:43:40,070
melded a talent for telling complex

850
00:43:44,890 --> 00:43:42,230
stories in accessible terms with a

851
00:43:48,100 --> 00:43:44,900
lifelong passion for aviation space

852
00:43:50,050 --> 00:43:48,110
technology and the environment working

853
00:43:52,870 --> 00:43:50,060
for nearly 17 years as a correspondent

854
00:43:55,810 --> 00:43:52,880
anchor and producer at CNN in Atlanta

855
00:43:58,330 --> 00:43:55,820
and New York he has focused the leading

856
00:44:00,640 --> 00:43:58,340
edge of research and tank research and

857
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:00,650
development known for his unparalleled

858
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:03,410
coverage of space exploration he led

859
00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:05,570
CNN's coverage for the past 17 years

860
00:44:11,470 --> 00:44:07,610
including the loss of the space shuttle

861
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:11,480
Columbia in February 2003 reporting live

862
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:15,170
for 16 straight hours that accident

863
00:44:18,610 --> 00:44:16,970
scuttled the deal he had just brokered

864
00:44:20,790 --> 00:44:18,620
with NASA to make him the first

865
00:44:23,110 --> 00:44:20,800
journalist to fly in a space shuttle

866
00:44:26,500 --> 00:44:23,120
he's an experienced instrument-rated

867
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:26,510
pilot and an airplane owner and has

868
00:44:30,430 --> 00:44:27,770
leveraged that insight and knowledge

869
00:44:33,820 --> 00:44:30,440
into unrivaled television coverage of

870
00:44:35,770 --> 00:44:33,830
aviation helping us now to appreciate

871
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:35,780
the momentous impact of the mars

872
00:44:44,549 --> 00:44:38,290
exploration rover mission please welcome

873
00:44:51,839 --> 00:44:47,579
great to be here

874
00:44:54,059 --> 00:44:51,849
how are you all behind all this facial

875
00:44:56,849 --> 00:44:54,069
hair is a former CNN space correspondent

876
00:45:00,150 --> 00:44:56,859
just been accepted into the anchor

877
00:45:02,029 --> 00:45:00,160
protection program and I was told by my

878
00:45:05,339 --> 00:45:02,039
government handlers to grow a beard to

879
00:45:07,170 --> 00:45:05,349
adjust my looks please don't tell them

880
00:45:08,789 --> 00:45:07,180
I'm here okay actually I grew this

881
00:45:10,499 --> 00:45:08,799
despite the misgivings of my lovely

882
00:45:14,999 --> 00:45:10,509
bride sandy because for the first time

883
00:45:17,700 --> 00:45:15,009
in 26 years I own this turf baby I'm

884
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:17,710
taking it back I was thinking about

885
00:45:22,559 --> 00:45:19,210
planting a flag but that seemed a little

886
00:45:24,329 --> 00:45:22,569
painful it's always great to be here my

887
00:45:27,180 --> 00:45:24,339
favorite space portal despite that

888
00:45:29,009 --> 00:45:27,190
picture the gateway to the universe is

889
00:45:33,140 --> 00:45:29,019
here one of the smartest places on the

890
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:33,150
planet a fun place Disneyland for nerds

891
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:35,650
you know Mars is my second favorite

892
00:45:39,839 --> 00:45:37,930
planet and many of you in this room make

893
00:45:42,589 --> 00:45:39,849
me feel as if I've been there how cool

894
00:45:45,690 --> 00:45:42,599
is that thanks for the outstanding

895
00:45:47,870 --> 00:45:45,700
vicarious thrill ride these past 40-plus

896
00:45:50,279 --> 00:45:47,880
years especially these past five

897
00:45:54,299 --> 00:45:50,289
sometimes I think we take for granted

898
00:45:57,620 --> 00:45:54,309
how amazing it is how a wash we are in

899
00:46:00,989 --> 00:45:57,630
these wonderful images these

900
00:46:02,819 --> 00:46:00,999
high-resolution panoramic microscopic

901
00:46:05,940 --> 00:46:02,829
three-dimensional images shot in the

902
00:46:08,309 --> 00:46:05,950
surface or in orbit what we found is a

903
00:46:10,739 --> 00:46:08,319
place it looks an awful lot like home if

904
00:46:12,779 --> 00:46:10,749
you're from New Mexico I guess and I

905
00:46:14,969 --> 00:46:12,789
think that's part of the appeal you look

906
00:46:18,630 --> 00:46:14,979
at Eagle crater and a human being can

907
00:46:20,969 --> 00:46:18,640
imagine being there in hiking boots it's

908
00:46:23,039 --> 00:46:20,979
truly a transformative experience and

909
00:46:25,499 --> 00:46:23,049
when you consider all the proof we have

910
00:46:28,079 --> 00:46:25,509
now amassed here or you have now amassed

911
00:46:30,329 --> 00:46:28,089
here that this place was once warm and

912
00:46:33,150 --> 00:46:30,339
wet you can't help but look at those

913
00:46:35,999 --> 00:46:33,160
pictures and think about our place in

914
00:46:38,700 --> 00:46:36,009
the universe and Wonder and how close we

915
00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:38,710
are to learning if we actually do have

916
00:46:44,249 --> 00:46:41,650
some company how great is it to be alive

917
00:46:47,009 --> 00:46:44,259
at this time when we just might learn

918
00:46:48,359 --> 00:46:47,019
the answer to that question we're lucky

919
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:48,369
to have people like you who know how to

920
00:46:53,249 --> 00:46:50,890
get that answer of course we've been

921
00:46:55,709 --> 00:46:53,259
curious about the night sky since

922
00:46:58,380 --> 00:46:55,719
caveman looked up and said ugh or

923
00:46:59,700 --> 00:46:58,390
something or when they saw the spaceship

924
00:47:00,870 --> 00:46:59,710
land in the little green men build

925
00:47:02,579 --> 00:47:00,880
Stonehenge

926
00:47:04,499 --> 00:47:02,589
did you hear they found another stone

927
00:47:06,900 --> 00:47:04,509
hedge in Lake Michigan hear about this

928
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:06,910
thing imagine that alien scuba divers

929
00:47:11,970 --> 00:47:09,970
hardly who knew who do while wasn't the

930
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:11,980
subject of water in Mars we've touched

931
00:47:16,289 --> 00:47:13,930
on this a moment ago it's worth talking

932
00:47:19,589 --> 00:47:16,299
about the origins of our modern

933
00:47:21,390 --> 00:47:19,599
fascination with the Red Planet mr.

934
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:21,400
Bradbury spoke about that it all begins

935
00:47:26,700 --> 00:47:23,890
with water Giovanni Schiaparelli and the

936
00:47:28,620 --> 00:47:26,710
canale he wrote about he meant natural

937
00:47:30,930 --> 00:47:28,630
channels but in this case something was

938
00:47:32,730 --> 00:47:30,940
gained in the translation and people

939
00:47:35,730 --> 00:47:32,740
assumed he was talking about canals

940
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:35,740
which implies some sort of Martian cores

941
00:47:40,890 --> 00:47:38,890
of Engineers or something no one took

942
00:47:42,210 --> 00:47:40,900
the ball farther and ran harder than

943
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:42,220
with that than the blue blooded

944
00:47:46,289 --> 00:47:44,650
astronomer percival lowell you know you

945
00:47:49,410 --> 00:47:46,299
don't hear about many boys being named

946
00:47:51,630 --> 00:47:49,420
personal these days do you and lo was

947
00:47:53,670 --> 00:47:51,640
convinced the canals were built by smart

948
00:47:55,559 --> 00:47:53,680
beings who are running out of water this

949
00:47:57,920 --> 00:47:55,569
of course began hg wells were the

950
00:48:00,900 --> 00:47:57,930
world's which begat edgar rice burroughs

951
00:48:04,259 --> 00:48:00,910
ray bradbury of course Robinson Crusoe

952
00:48:06,089 --> 00:48:04,269
on Mars and Marvin the Martian and for a

953
00:48:08,339 --> 00:48:06,099
long time there was nothing to stop the

954
00:48:11,190 --> 00:48:08,349
Martian train from kind of rolling down

955
00:48:13,289 --> 00:48:11,200
the tracks until mid sixties when you

956
00:48:16,140 --> 00:48:13,299
guys or your scientific ancestors

957
00:48:19,140 --> 00:48:16,150
launched a series of spacecraft called

958
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:19,150
Mariner now scan line by scan line these

959
00:48:23,789 --> 00:48:21,490
faxes essentially from Mars gave us a

960
00:48:25,319 --> 00:48:23,799
whole new view of the red planet and it

961
00:48:28,289 --> 00:48:25,329
wasn't a very good place to find any

962
00:48:30,450 --> 00:48:28,299
condos or build them so much for that

963
00:48:32,609 --> 00:48:30,460
fun but before we get too depressed we

964
00:48:34,799 --> 00:48:32,619
had astronauts on the moon to entertain

965
00:48:36,900 --> 00:48:34,809
us maybe not David Frost but it

966
00:48:39,029 --> 00:48:36,910
entertained the rest of us and then

967
00:48:41,999 --> 00:48:39,039
before too long Mars came into focus

968
00:48:43,349 --> 00:48:42,009
again like it never had before 1976 the

969
00:48:46,109 --> 00:48:43,359
Viking landers arrived in the surface

970
00:48:47,670 --> 00:48:46,119
and the crowd went wild Mars and vivid

971
00:48:49,410 --> 00:48:47,680
color do not have just just said it

972
00:48:52,079 --> 00:48:49,420
really is kind of sepia there ladies and

973
00:48:54,569 --> 00:48:52,089
gentlemen Viking didn't find smoking gun

974
00:48:56,730 --> 00:48:54,579
proof of life on Mars but doesn't it

975
00:48:59,640 --> 00:48:56,740
seem kind of unlikely they'd find any

976
00:49:01,799 --> 00:48:59,650
guns at all there but but seriously that

977
00:49:03,900 --> 00:49:01,809
the data was kind of ambiguous and even

978
00:49:05,279 --> 00:49:03,910
today as I understand it there is some

979
00:49:07,410 --> 00:49:05,289
debate in the scientific community

980
00:49:09,269 --> 00:49:07,420
they're not speaking with one voice in

981
00:49:11,290 --> 00:49:09,279
this decided to stria Lee disagree a lot

982
00:49:15,220 --> 00:49:11,300
or something is that

983
00:49:17,930 --> 00:49:15,230
said how it works and I'm shocked

984
00:49:20,060 --> 00:49:17,940
fast-forward 20 years now that's what I

985
00:49:22,700 --> 00:49:20,070
call a gap don't do that again no more

986
00:49:30,230 --> 00:49:22,710
20-year gaps Pathfinder whoo yeah don't

987
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:30,240
ever do that that was bad Pathfinder who

988
00:49:34,790 --> 00:49:32,370
would have predicted that one the

989
00:49:37,910 --> 00:49:34,800
Internet's all of them as a mass medium

990
00:49:40,010 --> 00:49:37,920
were new then and the google it was just

991
00:49:42,020 --> 00:49:40,020
a just a glint in Sergey and Larry his

992
00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:42,030
eyes and there was pathfinder on Mars

993
00:49:46,940 --> 00:49:43,890
and JPL was putting pictures on the web

994
00:49:49,490 --> 00:49:46,950
almost as fast as they got them imagine

995
00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:49,500
that you know millions of hits the first

996
00:49:56,210 --> 00:49:54,210
global web extravaganza Mars was ready

997
00:49:57,500 --> 00:49:56,220
for it's close ups the missions that

998
00:49:59,690 --> 00:49:57,510
have followed avow they're built in this

999
00:50:01,940 --> 00:49:59,700
connection or built on the suspense

1000
00:50:03,860 --> 00:50:01,950
because they didn't make it each time

1001
00:50:05,780 --> 00:50:03,870
you take us back there we learn

1002
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:05,790
something new and we see something cool

1003
00:50:09,950 --> 00:50:07,770
like the blueberries the spheres that

1004
00:50:12,530 --> 00:50:09,960
had to be formed by water or we touch or

1005
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:12,540
taste ice as Phoenix did and each time

1006
00:50:17,720 --> 00:50:15,090
you all take us to the edge of what is

1007
00:50:20,510 --> 00:50:17,730
possible it's nice to be there right

1008
00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:20,520
there with you the Mars rover team took

1009
00:50:25,970 --> 00:50:23,490
the Pathfinder philosophy one step

1010
00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:25,980
further you all have actually allowed

1011
00:50:30,410 --> 00:50:28,530
the public to see every image you see

1012
00:50:31,670 --> 00:50:30,420
that is truly remarkable nothing like

1013
00:50:33,260 --> 00:50:31,680
that has ever happened in the history of

1014
00:50:35,870 --> 00:50:33,270
science that I'm aware of of course I'm

1015
00:50:37,490 --> 00:50:35,880
a history major what do I know but the

1016
00:50:39,470 --> 00:50:37,500
Wonder opportunity and spirit are so

1017
00:50:41,690 --> 00:50:39,480
beloved and so much a part of our pop

1018
00:50:45,170 --> 00:50:41,700
culture they are literally and

1019
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:45,180
figuratively rock stars the mission

1020
00:50:50,690 --> 00:50:47,490
ranks number one on the public awareness

1021
00:50:52,790 --> 00:50:50,700
scale in TV we call that a Q rating now

1022
00:50:57,440 --> 00:50:52,800
if I had opportunities Q rating I'd

1023
00:50:59,600 --> 00:50:57,450
still be at CNN I think I think the

1024
00:51:01,250 --> 00:50:59,610
thread that connects shipper le2 and

1025
00:51:04,340 --> 00:51:01,260
Lowell to opportunity and spirit in

1026
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:04,350
Phoenix is the quest for understanding

1027
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:06,810
if there's life outside our planet you

1028
00:51:11,210 --> 00:51:09,210
and those of us in the media well I

1029
00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:11,220
guess I'm now technically a recovering

1030
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:14,370
journalists have done a good job setting

1031
00:51:19,220 --> 00:51:16,770
the bar on what might or might not be

1032
00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:19,230
found on Mars there aren't many people

1033
00:51:23,420 --> 00:51:21,450
left who are expecting to see Marvin the

1034
00:51:24,829 --> 00:51:23,430
Martian or the ruins of an ancient

1035
00:51:26,479 --> 00:51:24,839
civilization on Mars

1036
00:51:28,940 --> 00:51:26,489
even though some people are still

1037
00:51:30,650 --> 00:51:28,950
fixated on that silly old face image

1038
00:51:33,319 --> 00:51:30,660
captured by viking and ultimately

1039
00:51:35,209 --> 00:51:33,329
debunked by the global surveyor i guess

1040
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:35,219
i can safely now share with you an

1041
00:51:39,170 --> 00:51:37,650
expression we have in the newsroom never

1042
00:51:43,130 --> 00:51:39,180
let the facts get in the way of a good

1043
00:51:45,380 --> 00:51:43,140
story my sense is people will be pretty

1044
00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:45,390
excited if you found a fossil matter of

1045
00:51:52,959 --> 00:51:49,170
fact we have empirical proof given the

1046
00:51:56,209 --> 00:51:52,969
DEFCON one media cluster event

1047
00:51:58,759 --> 00:51:56,219
surrounding the Allen Hills 84 double-o

1048
00:52:00,529 --> 00:51:58,769
one meteorite announcement it's not

1049
00:52:02,569 --> 00:52:00,539
exactly what said he had is in mind when

1050
00:52:06,049 --> 00:52:02,579
they sold Ron looking to make contact

1051
00:52:08,779 --> 00:52:06,059
but microbes on Mars are enough to lure

1052
00:52:12,380 --> 00:52:08,789
people away ever so briefly from

1053
00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:12,390
American Idol I guess the moral of this

1054
00:52:17,059 --> 00:52:15,690
is because we are among the living we

1055
00:52:20,059 --> 00:52:17,069
generally aren't interested in other

1056
00:52:21,799 --> 00:52:20,069
living things and this brings me to the

1057
00:52:24,739 --> 00:52:21,809
other great narrative that plays out

1058
00:52:27,229 --> 00:52:24,749
here it's the story of all of you often

1059
00:52:29,180 --> 00:52:27,239
wonder if you're all big gamblers you

1060
00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:29,190
know when you go to Vegas are you big on

1061
00:52:33,019 --> 00:52:31,170
the tables because what you do is such

1062
00:52:36,380 --> 00:52:33,029
an all-or-nothing thing in some cases

1063
00:52:38,269 --> 00:52:36,390
your risk whole career on a six-minute

1064
00:52:42,259 --> 00:52:38,279
plunge through an alien atmosphere I

1065
00:52:45,109 --> 00:52:42,269
mean that's that's all in baby this is

1066
00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:45,119
as exciting as science can be you know

1067
00:52:48,499 --> 00:52:46,650
we weren't there for the serendipitous

1068
00:52:51,589 --> 00:52:48,509
moments when they stumbled onto Teflon

1069
00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:51,599
or velcro or post-it notes and and said

1070
00:52:56,779 --> 00:52:53,130
Eureka and then called the patent lawyer

1071
00:52:59,120 --> 00:52:56,789
but but we are here with you over your

1072
00:53:02,029 --> 00:52:59,130
shoulders when you have those unbridled

1073
00:53:05,509 --> 00:53:02,039
moments of joy when that all-in bet pays

1074
00:53:09,890 --> 00:53:05,519
off or not in the business we call this

1075
00:53:11,950 --> 00:53:09,900
good TV suspense reality possibly

1076
00:53:13,999 --> 00:53:11,960
smoldering holes in the ground

1077
00:53:17,660 --> 00:53:14,009
everything but a vote to see who gets

1078
00:53:19,370 --> 00:53:17,670
booted off the island now Steve Squyres

1079
00:53:23,719 --> 00:53:19,380
and I did a special when the Phoenix

1080
00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:23,729
landed successfully and I gave all do

1081
00:53:28,700 --> 00:53:25,650
praise to the gods of orbital mechanics

1082
00:53:30,289 --> 00:53:28,710
as the earth received time of the

1083
00:53:32,539 --> 00:53:30,299
intended landing was near the end of an

1084
00:53:34,579 --> 00:53:32,549
hour and so I told CNN and with the

1085
00:53:36,559 --> 00:53:34,589
notion that be great idea to do an hour

1086
00:53:38,390 --> 00:53:36,569
on Mars and will test them recorded

1087
00:53:40,279 --> 00:53:38,400
pieces and we'll look at some of

1088
00:53:42,890 --> 00:53:40,289
Steve's favorite images from Mars over

1089
00:53:45,200 --> 00:53:42,900
the years and of course frequent cuts to

1090
00:53:48,529 --> 00:53:45,210
the control room live as the team endure

1091
00:53:50,390 --> 00:53:48,539
that hellish 6 minute period that final

1092
00:53:53,089 --> 00:53:50,400
stretch of the long trip to Mars it

1093
00:53:55,609 --> 00:53:53,099
really was a nail-biter and even better

1094
00:53:57,980 --> 00:53:55,619
as Phoenix fell to Mars we had data the

1095
00:53:59,359 --> 00:53:57,990
whole time how cool was that and then

1096
00:54:02,000 --> 00:53:59,369
the eruption we could not have

1097
00:54:05,690 --> 00:54:02,010
storyboarded an hour any better than

1098
00:54:08,799 --> 00:54:05,700
that and no scripts right no net the

1099
00:54:11,059 --> 00:54:08,809
ratings were huge the audience global

1100
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:11,069
but the story really if you think about

1101
00:54:15,859 --> 00:54:13,410
it was not so much about Mars that day

1102
00:54:19,269 --> 00:54:15,869
it was about all of you the humans who

1103
00:54:22,309 --> 00:54:19,279
made it happen so the human adventure

1104
00:54:24,319 --> 00:54:22,319
doing of doing all this is the great

1105
00:54:26,390 --> 00:54:24,329
connection between those of you here and

1106
00:54:30,170 --> 00:54:26,400
those of us who only get a day pass to

1107
00:54:32,420 --> 00:54:30,180
disneyland for nerds so let's be honest

1108
00:54:34,849 --> 00:54:32,430
this is not a strong suit for most

1109
00:54:36,079 --> 00:54:34,859
scientists right for whatever reason

1110
00:54:38,269 --> 00:54:36,089
however you've been blessed with some

1111
00:54:41,750 --> 00:54:38,279
key people over the years who are great

1112
00:54:44,089 --> 00:54:41,760
communicators from seguin to squires so

1113
00:54:46,640 --> 00:54:44,099
I bet you're thinking well miles if this

1114
00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:46,650
is so why isn't there more coverage in

1115
00:54:50,870 --> 00:54:48,690
the mainstream media of our exploits in

1116
00:54:53,299 --> 00:54:50,880
the good old days it was different right

1117
00:54:55,279 --> 00:54:53,309
the coverage was longer better and

1118
00:54:58,460 --> 00:54:55,289
deeper as opposed to faster better

1119
00:54:59,539 --> 00:54:58,470
cheaper i guess the report the reporters

1120
00:55:02,089 --> 00:54:59,549
were enthused they were practically

1121
00:55:04,010 --> 00:55:02,099
cheerleaders except for David Frost and

1122
00:55:06,079 --> 00:55:04,020
the whole world the whole world was

1123
00:55:07,549 --> 00:55:06,089
watching oh and the women were more

1124
00:55:09,980 --> 00:55:07,559
beautiful in the beer tasted better too

1125
00:55:12,410 --> 00:55:09,990
and the kids were smarter anyway so what

1126
00:55:16,700 --> 00:55:12,420
happened to the media why do we see more

1127
00:55:20,730 --> 00:55:16,710
interested in Britney Spears than Tony

1128
00:55:31,150 --> 00:55:27,910
what's up with that okay it's a slightly

1129
00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:31,160
rhetorical question besides how the hell

1130
00:55:36,099 --> 00:55:33,490
should I know I just got canned

1131
00:55:38,230 --> 00:55:36,109
seriously though a lot of this has to do

1132
00:55:39,670 --> 00:55:38,240
with the space agency which you are

1133
00:55:42,819 --> 00:55:39,680
affiliated with affiliated with NASA

1134
00:55:44,559 --> 00:55:42,829
scribes to the no Buck Rogers no bucks

1135
00:55:46,210 --> 00:55:44,569
philosophy and there's probably some

1136
00:55:48,549 --> 00:55:46,220
truth to all that but sending humans

1137
00:55:51,279 --> 00:55:48,559
into the vacuum creates a bit of a

1138
00:55:52,870 --> 00:55:51,289
vacuum for the likes of you sadly it's

1139
00:55:54,730 --> 00:55:52,880
simply hard to compete with those

1140
00:55:56,920 --> 00:55:54,740
operations in houston and florida too

1141
00:55:59,230 --> 00:55:56,930
much money and too many flights fights

1142
00:56:01,509 --> 00:55:59,240
over how the money has or will be spent

1143
00:56:02,980 --> 00:56:01,519
shuttle launch coverage sadly has

1144
00:56:05,470 --> 00:56:02,990
degenerated into little more than a

1145
00:56:07,990 --> 00:56:05,480
Deathwatch type of coverage and the

1146
00:56:10,299 --> 00:56:08,000
space savvy press corps seems poised to

1147
00:56:12,700 --> 00:56:10,309
pounce on the next gaffe the fact that

1148
00:56:14,380 --> 00:56:12,710
CNN wiped out its entire highly

1149
00:56:16,839 --> 00:56:14,390
decorated i should say science and

1150
00:56:19,539 --> 00:56:16,849
technology unit including yours truly i

1151
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:19,549
say ever so humbly should tell you a lot

1152
00:56:24,069 --> 00:56:21,410
about where things are right now in the

1153
00:56:26,799 --> 00:56:24,079
mainstream media we're talking about

1154
00:56:29,680 --> 00:56:26,809
plate tectonics here though the world is

1155
00:56:31,630 --> 00:56:29,690
shifting beneath the media's feet once

1156
00:56:33,190 --> 00:56:31,640
upon a time we had healthy newspapers in

1157
00:56:35,980 --> 00:56:33,200
this country soon we'll have nothing to

1158
00:56:38,859 --> 00:56:35,990
line the birdcage or wrap the fish so

1159
00:56:41,710 --> 00:56:38,869
what's the advice plastics no no I'm

1160
00:56:44,950 --> 00:56:41,720
sorry that's that's that was for an

1161
00:56:47,529 --> 00:56:44,960
older speech i guess i need to cup date

1162
00:56:51,160 --> 00:56:47,539
that one it's the internets all of them

1163
00:56:54,519 --> 00:56:51,170
seriously what you are you in a sense

1164
00:56:56,710 --> 00:56:54,529
started in 97 with had the Pathfinder

1165
00:57:00,029 --> 00:56:56,720
weba gonza he believed he's a senator

1166
00:57:03,099 --> 00:57:00,039
now what a great this is a great country

1167
00:57:05,470 --> 00:57:03,109
it's all grown at a Moore's Law clip

1168
00:57:07,809 --> 00:57:05,480
today bloggers tweeters Facebookers

1169
00:57:11,349 --> 00:57:07,819
random folks ranting with a DV camera to

1170
00:57:13,809 --> 00:57:11,359
Mac can do and can compete with a huge

1171
00:57:15,819 --> 00:57:13,819
globally deployed standing army of

1172
00:57:17,440 --> 00:57:15,829
journalists all their satellite trucks

1173
00:57:19,900 --> 00:57:17,450
and their producers and their makeup

1174
00:57:21,670 --> 00:57:19,910
artists and their reporters there are

1175
00:57:23,589 --> 00:57:21,680
interested people out there the

1176
00:57:26,890 --> 00:57:23,599
mainstream media may no longer be the

1177
00:57:28,180 --> 00:57:26,900
best way to reach them however it just

1178
00:57:30,130 --> 00:57:28,190
looks a lot different than those news

1179
00:57:32,200 --> 00:57:30,140
conferences in the 60s and 70s so

1180
00:57:33,609 --> 00:57:32,210
whatever you do I encourage you not to

1181
00:57:36,279 --> 00:57:33,619
stop of course

1182
00:57:38,859 --> 00:57:36,289
don't stop exploring but also don't stop

1183
00:57:41,829 --> 00:57:38,869
thinking of new ways to speak directly

1184
00:57:43,299 --> 00:57:41,839
to your audience this is the future you

1185
00:57:45,789 --> 00:57:43,309
get it here I know that but I'm just

1186
00:57:47,859 --> 00:57:45,799
underscoring the point my teenage kids

1187
00:57:50,380 --> 00:57:47,869
insist on a two-way transaction on

1188
00:57:52,029 --> 00:57:50,390
everything they do if they can't be a

1189
00:57:55,539 --> 00:57:52,039
part of your adventure they're out of

1190
00:57:57,789 --> 00:57:55,549
here so fortunately this is what you do

1191
00:57:59,470 --> 00:57:57,799
here in a long history of letting the

1192
00:58:01,150 --> 00:57:59,480
public in is what you're all about and

1193
00:58:02,380 --> 00:58:01,160
letting them look over your shoulders as

1194
00:58:05,200 --> 00:58:02,390
you do your work that's courageous

1195
00:58:07,599 --> 00:58:05,210
that's part of the risk right just keep

1196
00:58:09,549 --> 00:58:07,609
exploring new ways to engage them never

1197
00:58:12,309 --> 00:58:09,559
stop thinking of what is just over the

1198
00:58:29,200 --> 00:58:12,319
horizon on whatever planet you happen to

1199
00:58:33,020 --> 00:58:31,099
one of the more significant

1200
00:58:35,480 --> 00:58:33,030
accomplishments of this mission I think

1201
00:58:38,359 --> 00:58:35,490
the for me the one metric or the one

1202
00:58:40,789 --> 00:58:38,369
measure that really captures it is that

1203
00:58:43,370 --> 00:58:40,799
is the realization that Spirit and

1204
00:58:47,450 --> 00:58:43,380
Opportunity have made this strange alien

1205
00:58:51,049 --> 00:58:47,460
world a familiar place we now live in a

1206
00:58:52,460 --> 00:58:51,059
larger neighborhood and this adventure

1207
00:58:55,069 --> 00:58:52,470
continues for these two Rovers to

1208
00:58:59,240 --> 00:58:55,079
explore and discover for the benefit of

1209
00:59:02,270 --> 00:58:59,250
all these Rovers this mission and your

1210
00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:02,280
Labor's are the finest examples of what

1211
00:59:08,630 --> 00:59:05,970
humankind can do well done opportunity