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that

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great things

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take

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many people working together to make

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them happen is one of the fantastic

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things of human existence

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not only we've driven the rover we've

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moved its arm put it all through its

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paces but it's been in a thermal vacuum

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chamber and kept very cold

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parts of it have been a centrifuge

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we've done drop tests pull tests drive

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tests load tests stress tests

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just an amazing amount of testing this

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vehicle has gone through we've tried

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every way of operating at the vehicle

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using the software literally thousands

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and thousands of hours of software

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testing

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it's been just a an amazing several

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years really of constant testing and

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development finding problems fixing

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those problems and going on to the next

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problem

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lc this is the ld on channel one lc you

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have permission to launch

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roger proceeding with the count

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t-minus 10

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three

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am i confident that she's going to go

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and she's going to be successful

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absolutely

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we should have crashed around 1.7

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the parachute is deployed

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we are decelerating

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[Applause]

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has separated on the ground

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we are in power flight for an altitude

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of one kilometer descending standing by

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for skycrane

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touchdown

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[Applause]

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what a fantastic demonstration of what

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our nation and our agency can do

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i could only think of the words of teddy

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roosevelt as i was sitting there

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it is far better to their mighty things

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even so we might fail

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than to stay in the twilight that knows

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neither victory nor defeat and the team

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brought us victory today

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today right now the wheels of curiosity

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have begun to blaze the trail for human

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footprints on mars this is an amazing

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achievement

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well today on mars history was made on

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earth the successful landing of

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curiosity

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marks what is really an unprecedented

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technological tour de force it will

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stand as an american point of pride far

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into the future we've got a long mission

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ahead of us and and because of that and

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the capabilities are over we have this

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possibility for just monumental science

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accomplishment

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within two months the team found an

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ancient riverbed evidence of flowing

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water we have found a habitable

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environment that is so benign and

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supportive of life that probably if this

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water was around and you had been on the