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I always said there's no way I'll ever

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moved to California no way I'll ever

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moved to Los Angeles got a job offer do

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you want to work on the Mars rovers okay

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fine I'll move to California all moved

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to Los Angeles I was an undergraduate

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and I was actually working at Marshall

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Space Flight Center when Pathfinder

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landed working that summer as an intern

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I actually was aware of the Pathfinder

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landing I was like so surprised I had no

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idea that anybody did anything like that

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you know what these people send a probe

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to Mars and ahead a rover and they drove

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it her and this is the coolest thing I

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have ever seen you know and I was like

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how much fun was their job and at that

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time I would never have ever dreamed

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that I could actually be one of the part

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of the team working on the very next

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rover that we landed on Mars and we're

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going to set the suspension parameters

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title so we're gonna leave a

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differential at 12 degrees as at the bow

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eated plus or minus 12 we don't believe

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that this will trip in reality its

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aromas that made me come here in the

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first place even before I started

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college a lot of people that I've worked

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with in the past have told me that they

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got interested in the space program

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because they saw man land on the moon

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and 69 and I wasn't around back then but

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I was in school when the Rovers were

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launched and when they landed so yet the

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Rovers are really important to me in

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that respect because the other reason

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I'm here and then we do a pre drive

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front left a scam and then we saw on a

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drive

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when they were landing I had actually

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about three semesters left in my

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undergraduate career didn't think I'd

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ever be working on him because well they

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were supposed to die before I finished

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up my junior year and then they just

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kept going and going and going you know

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being a new student out of college

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coming to work on this mission I I was

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very optimistic you know I always

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believed that it was going to work

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against all odds you're gonna make it

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work you know and of course at times it

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hits me makes me very emotional you can

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see me in some of those the landing

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footage I think I'm hyperventilating on

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screen when we first saw the images come

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down from Mars it was so monumental to

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this has been one heck of an adventure

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and I just it's like a really good dream