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today it's a really exciting day it's a

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milestone for MSL in the sense the first

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time we're seeing the rover drive its

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own wheels its own mobility system it's

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gone from designs on napkins to

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powerpoint you know to cad drawings to

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blueprints and now it's a rover this is

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really one of the big milestones you

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know we've been all designing various

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parts of the rover and in different

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places at JPL different places around

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the world and now to see them come

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together and to see a rover sitting in

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front of us and actually have somebody

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press a button and it drives you know

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this really gives us a vision of this

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rope was real and it's going to be on

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Marcin day it's going to explore a big

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area on Mars that's one of the reasons

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it's so big and has such a great driving

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capability we wanted to be basically

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drive it around 10 or 20 miles around

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the landing site on mars and I looked

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for places that may have been habitable

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early in Mars history places that were

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friendly to life I've seen pictures of

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this Rover for so many years you know I

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know it in my sleep but yet to see it

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like real life and to know that this is

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the actual thing that's going to Mars

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and we'll drive around over rocks and

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soil and you know go down into craters

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that's that's kind of amazing it sort of

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blows your mind to look at this thing