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the mars polar lander and mars climate

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orbiter missions failed

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we had to get back in the saddle we had

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to get something landed on the surface

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of mars

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i thought it was honestly it's like a

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crazy idea given the amount of time that

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we have

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the probability of failure was

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unacceptable

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engineers don't like designing when

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they fooled me into taking this job

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saying that oh won't be that hard

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it's a reflex pathfinder you have all

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the pieces there

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we knew it would be a challenge but i

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don't think we adequately assessed

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how difficult it would be i think in the

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back of your mind you're always prepared

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for

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anything to happen but this wasn't one

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of the places that we thought

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something would go wrong come on man

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you don't put a system like this on a

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moment trouble is

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it's great on paper but until you put it

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out there and test it you really don't

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know what you have

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you know i tell my people that in terms

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of my top ten list of worries

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the first three are schedule schedule

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and schedule and there's nothing in

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fourth place

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i came to the realization that the

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heritage wasn't in the blueprints the

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heritage was the people

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our next pass through this if it doesn't

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come together it's an all-go-home thing

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it's an

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sixth green over five four three

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the end of 1999 the mars polar lander

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jpl was responsible for these missions

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and that changed

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everything there was a loss of

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confidence

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what had to be done is we had to get

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back in the saddle we had to get

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something landed on the surface of mars

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we have to go back to something we know

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and what we knew is we knew the

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pathfinder lander and because of that

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confidence we can do it in a short time

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we got to take the pathfinder laner and

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here we go six pulses for equalization f

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minus 18 db

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we knew at the time we had a three year

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project to go to launch that's just very

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very tight for a mission of this kind of

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complexity

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and we've been fighting that challenge

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since the beginning

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you worry about am i got the right plan

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do i really have it figured out

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i'll briefly go over launch crews and

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and just give you an idea of how the

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downlink process works during those

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i'll spend a lot more time on surface

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specifically the tactical downlink

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i'll also talk a little bit about a

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couple key additional requirements for

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red river goes to start getting into

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cycle of things changing just a little

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all of a sudden the mass got heavier and

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so other things had to change

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your design heritage the blueprint i use

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the phrase phrase that i will never use

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again because no one will believe me

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i said we will take the mars pathfinder

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lander and build to print

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we will take the blueprints and we will

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send it to the machine shop build these

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same things again and that will be the

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shell that we landed

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and then we just have to design this

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rover that fits inside

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that build to print concept is the one

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thing that was completely wrong

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the message here is if you see something

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heritage wasn't in the blueprints

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the heritage was in the people and the

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people who designed this thing before

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they've gone through this design work

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they've experienced all the difficulties

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they know how to solve it

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they tell us these only weigh 40 pounds

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well we have a deadline to meet for

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testing so we have to work a lot of

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hours and work hard and get it

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it's very difficult the stuff we coat it

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get special needles

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special machines and it takes a lot of

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i've worked gloves and now and i've

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it's like peas and carrots you know

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gloves are more delicate more

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this is physically challenging because

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right is it going to be okay

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is it going to work you can't imagine

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joy we were jumping up and down when

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pathfinder landed it was successful

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how would you feel if you knew that

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something you had actually worked on and

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touched every day

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was on mars our names are on mars

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because we got to sign the lander panel

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pathfinder and believe me we'll have our

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hello

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it's been hit a lot i mean seriously no

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no no these things lose a little of

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look it's got the same texture down

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this is the rocket was causing all the

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problems in the last test

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so we were right up to the hairy edge

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we're supposed to just be checking the

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we were waiting to see if we had a

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working airbag system it was pretty

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scary replica

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it's a mate you never would have guessed

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that this rocket caused so much trouble

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they fooled me into taking this job

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saying that oh won't be that hard

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it's a re-flight of mars pathfinder you

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have all the pieces there

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put it together again it'll work and

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last darn piece on that entry descent

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landing system had to be redesigned

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heritage this build to print

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but effectively i was more of a busybody

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getting in adam cessna's way rather than

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driving the system i wanted to see

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to understand the challenges and

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all the debates

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that bring out those subtle nuances of

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the design that you do not hear any

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other way we thought we understood

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how the airbag system was going to

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behave we knew it was marginal and

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nobody was expecting it to be

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a robust but the initial design

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we have some clear damages the

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layers of the vest and

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slow-moving drill and only sends up

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the dust for digging this hole so we can

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through the report first and then we

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sure and then we do what what's who asks

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think they were going to do that well i

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know what the skirt does at these

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different angles we don't know what

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this whole thing has been sufficiently

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counter-intuitive to me from the get-go

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then i'd rather see that's what's going

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to happen now wait a minute

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the idea of getting rid of the skirt

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show the tape you know

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this thing creates a the skirt actually

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velocity does it fly off

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skirt that's all i just didn't quite

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why that should be so extensive we'll do

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it handle discussion

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okay from their perspective i understand

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you know their instruments they're

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however engineers don't like designing

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when there are

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a couple of uh

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that's the baseline and everything that

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these guys talked about

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is consistent with that budget there's a

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list of threats

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that these guys have come to me with and

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they've said okay

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i may i the more structure may be late

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the pma contracted ball may increase

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uh the flight software workforce may

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stretch to the right

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the et cetera et cetera et cetera and

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i've added all those threats up they're

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in the category of everything we can

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think of that can go wrong

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although froze would argue that we've

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made that claim before and we haven't

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thought of everything

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i submit that based on the data i gave

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you this week

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you can't draw that conclusion what is

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the internal processes in division 35

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to make sure that these promise dates

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are going to be met

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we are holding the subsystems fee to the

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fire as much as we can

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what part of this gives you guess where

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are you concerned

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problem presentation presents to the

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board they can't

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make a judgment if they were to make a

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judgment they'd say

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you're in in very very serious trouble

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we're not done with this review yet okay

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i mean we understand that problem

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and if you want us to impress the story

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into one hour we can do

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it that's not going to work here i mean

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clearly

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he does not shift his knee date to the

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delivery date

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just as a matter of principle every time

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it happens we go through a very long

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process of trying to push back on the

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subsystems the procedures have got to be

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more self-contained john's right we've

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got to clean it up mechanisms

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at acs for example we are hardware and

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software constrained

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big time and so there are probably some

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things we can do

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you know there's always some something

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you can do but a lot of it tends to be

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non-critical path

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we have to go there's some wow lousy

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sucks

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we've had that objective right from the

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start right but if we go out

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into the middle of the listing we've

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lost that the main objective the main

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for those of you haven't been in this

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process before that ray knows well you

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don't put a system like this on a major

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spacecraft like this at the last moment

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this is there's this tension that exists

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between the engineering team

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and the scientists the engineers want

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success in order to assure success they

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have to be very conservative people

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yeah the landing system is very fragile

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in the presence of sustained winds that

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if

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sustained winds go above a certain level

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that the landing system the airbags

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cannot do the job and so that's another

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point that says that even if you don't

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believe the models

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you better be wary of what they're

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saying and that and that actually

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changes the site selection criteria

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that's the bottom line that's right

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you're seeing a much greater concern

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over wins than

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we even considered going in but the way

377
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we started this was you have to certify

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the site is safe

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so i don't think that the project will

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not recommend that we land in an unsafe

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site

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you know regardless of the science

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you could probably imagine two partially

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ordered sets one from the scientific

385
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point of view these are all great these

386
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are in between and these are not the

387
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good

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and the same thing from engineering and

389
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you can imagine lining those two up side

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by side

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and then trying to decide whether or not

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to exist to the site that was not

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unacceptable from either point of view

394
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right

395
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and this was done during pathfinder and

396
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the gentry was there in the very end

397
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myrrh is more complex because there were

398
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so many more

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data sets that you could throw at the

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problem

401
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we have two orbiters that are going

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around mars that we can direct to take

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pictures at target locations

404
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so now it's much more involved you're

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actually acquiring the information

406
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while you're in the decision-making

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process while you're building the

408
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spacecraft while you're worried about

409
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what the spacecraft can actually do

410
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and what sort of site it can and can't

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land at

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excuse me i i in terms of

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distant views and relief clearly there's

414
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an issue here but

415
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what that hematite looks deposit looks

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like on a centimeter to 10 centimeter to

417
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meter scale

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nobody in this room knows it could be

419
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wild it could be weird

420
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it could be very very strange-looking

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and let me just follow that up

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pathfinder was just as dull and boring

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from an orbital point of view and we

424
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landed there were some hills there that

425
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people got pretty excited about

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uncertainty on this category matt might

427
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rival the uncertainty on the winds

428
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how could that be scientists trying to

429
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i i think you can explain this one to

430
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oh man if i explain pathfinders in

431
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public i can explain hematite to the

432
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public

433
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we have a landing site where that

434
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category is not

435
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green i think we have a real problem yes

436
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so but remember the dynamic range is

437
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going to get open

438
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there may be some that have reds here

439
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the question i'm having is what is the

440
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meaning of that road and what is the

441
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meaning of good diversity

442
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because you can have so much diversity

443
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that you don't know what the hell you're

444
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doing

445
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let's go on let's leave it and see if it

446
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who thought this up

447
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arthur can you find one more person we

448
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need another person for this game

449
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they lost one so the beginning of june

450
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of 2002

451
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the year before launch picnic we are 51

452
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weeks from launch

453
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last week the team went out and had a

454
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good lunch time and played a little

455
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the schedule is the big concern on this

456
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you know i tell my people that in terms

457
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of my top 10 list of worries

458
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the first three are scheduled schedule

459
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and schedule and there's nothing in

460
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that's just very very tight for a

461
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mission of this kind of complexity and

462
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we've been fighting that

463
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challenge basically since the beginning

464
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so the pressure now is on getting the

465
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flight equipment together

466
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through the assembly test and launch

467
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operations phase in order to get ready

468
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to go to florida

469
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in march of 2003

470
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the schedule situation has forced us to

471
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expend money at a greater rate than we

472
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expected so we've had to go back to nasa

473
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headquarters and ask for an infusions of

474
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funds

475
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they've been extremely supportive of our

476
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requests and we've gotten everything

477
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we've asked for

478
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[Music]

479
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but in going through that process you

480
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worry about have i got the right plan do

481
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i really have it figured out

482
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are we on track can we stay on track my

483
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job is to make sure that the rest of the

484
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team

485
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a very high caliber very motivated group

486
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of people

487
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can get their job done so my job is to

488
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get the stuff that gets in their way out

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running

490
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[Music]

491
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so

492
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what's your opinion if we uh

493
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i think since this is the zero degree um

494
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it's probably worth doing

495
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so i i've got your concurrence that it

496
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will count as a test

497
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are you questioning whether you're going

498
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to get air data boom data

499
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uh the pilot indicates that we have a

500
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very high probability in these gusty

501
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conditions that we will smash the air

502
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downfall

503
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i'm i'm really amazed at the amount of

504
00:26:33,360 --> 00:26:44,630
look at it

505
00:26:53,830 --> 00:26:47,909
look at that that

506
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is that's blended

507
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awesome oh that's fantastic

508
00:27:30,710 --> 00:27:28,710
well here's here's the thing too if

509
00:27:32,470 --> 00:27:30,720
let's say let's say this one hits

510
00:27:33,990 --> 00:27:32,480
and it's a good test we quickly found

511
00:27:38,870 --> 00:27:34,000
out that we weren't testing them the way

512
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i think in the back of your mind you're

513
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always prepared for anything to happen

514
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but this wasn't one of the places that

515
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we went back in mid-june

516
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and had the very dramatic

517
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count and failures five

518
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:39,430
one

519
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:54,950
it was it was slightly devastating

520
00:29:01,190 --> 00:28:59,830
significant severe shoot damage

521
00:29:03,029 --> 00:29:01,200
well the political spin on this is

522
00:29:05,110 --> 00:29:03,039
pretty easy because this chute

523
00:29:06,630 --> 00:29:05,120
did not have any of the reinforcements

524
00:29:09,669 --> 00:29:06,640
that we put in to stop

525
00:29:10,630 --> 00:29:09,679
just these very kinds of failures these

526
00:29:13,110 --> 00:29:10,640
kinds of failures

527
00:29:13,750 --> 00:29:13,120
are not surprising and that's why we

528
00:29:15,990 --> 00:29:13,760
chose to use

529
00:29:18,789 --> 00:29:16,000
you got to remember these soft good

530
00:29:21,590 --> 00:29:18,799
systems like parachutes or air bags

531
00:29:23,510 --> 00:29:21,600
they are not readily amenable to

532
00:29:25,430 --> 00:29:23,520
analysis

533
00:29:26,789 --> 00:29:25,440
the inflation of a parachute is actually

534
00:29:30,230 --> 00:29:26,799
a chaotic event

535
00:29:31,830 --> 00:29:30,240
it's a non-linear dynamic event highly

536
00:29:33,430 --> 00:29:31,840
driven by the initial conditions of the

537
00:29:36,070 --> 00:29:33,440
inflation in that regard

538
00:29:37,350 --> 00:29:36,080
i i'm not surprised or disheartened at

539
00:29:39,909 --> 00:29:37,360
all by this

540
00:30:06,830 --> 00:29:39,919
i need to get the right spin on this so

541
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:11,190
oh

542
00:30:18,950 --> 00:30:16,149
that was of a nature that just makes you

543
00:30:21,110 --> 00:30:18,960
you're taken aback it even takes a day

544
00:30:27,909 --> 00:30:21,120
or two to absorb the magnitude of what

545
00:30:31,430 --> 00:30:29,750
that was rough first of all you have to

546
00:30:32,630 --> 00:30:31,440
figure out why you have a failure

547
00:30:34,789 --> 00:30:32,640
you have to figure out what your

548
00:30:35,830 --> 00:30:34,799
possible fixes are and you don't have

549
00:30:37,990 --> 00:30:35,840
the schedule to

550
00:30:42,230 --> 00:30:38,000
investigate this in a more methodical

551
00:30:49,510 --> 00:30:45,909
so we have to change our thinking

552
00:30:51,590 --> 00:30:49,520
on most likely the love and

553
00:30:52,630 --> 00:30:51,600
it didn't look like there was a it

554
00:30:54,710 --> 00:30:52,640
looked like there was a

555
00:30:56,070 --> 00:30:54,720
several different types of failure there

556
00:30:57,750 --> 00:30:56,080
at least to me uh

557
00:30:58,710 --> 00:30:57,760
to me it looked like it was yeah but

558
00:30:59,590 --> 00:30:58,720
again i'm looking through a little

559
00:31:05,190 --> 00:30:59,600
camera screen

560
00:31:16,789 --> 00:31:05,200
well even i mean it just you know

561
00:31:23,509 --> 00:31:20,070
coming to you dennis this cone's for you

562
00:31:24,870 --> 00:31:23,519
it's coming to you the fact that uh the

563
00:31:27,350 --> 00:31:24,880
parachute exploded

564
00:31:29,110 --> 00:31:27,360
not a good thing well yeah i'd rather

565
00:31:32,070 --> 00:31:29,120
have it happen here than

566
00:31:33,350 --> 00:31:32,080
mars yeah that's right unfortunately

567
00:31:35,110 --> 00:31:33,360
strictly speaking

568
00:31:36,549 --> 00:31:35,120
that shoot that just exploded was the

569
00:31:39,430 --> 00:31:36,559
shoot that we were planning on taking to

570
00:31:43,909 --> 00:31:42,389
complete structural failures repeated

571
00:31:45,110 --> 00:31:43,919
complete structural failures of the

572
00:31:49,190 --> 00:31:45,120
parachute

573
00:31:53,269 --> 00:31:49,200
and that was extremely distressful

574
00:31:54,710 --> 00:31:53,279
i mean that is a sense of panic

575
00:32:05,509 --> 00:31:54,720
like oh my god what are you gonna do

576
00:32:09,590 --> 00:32:08,070
the chute failed in the correct loads

577
00:32:11,190 --> 00:32:09,600
that tells us that we have a parachute

578
00:32:14,470 --> 00:32:11,200
that's not

579
00:32:15,750 --> 00:32:14,480
up to the job we need it to do because

580
00:32:18,389 --> 00:32:15,760
we have packed

581
00:32:20,310 --> 00:32:18,399
as much parachute as we can into the

582
00:32:22,310 --> 00:32:20,320
volume that's available to us

583
00:32:23,909 --> 00:32:22,320
our only recourse in making the

584
00:32:25,990 --> 00:32:23,919
parachute stronger

585
00:32:27,590 --> 00:32:26,000
is to change the configuration and

586
00:32:29,590 --> 00:32:27,600
reduce the band

587
00:32:31,190 --> 00:32:29,600
length the way you make it stronger is

588
00:32:34,389 --> 00:32:31,200
you put maybe other webbing

589
00:32:36,950 --> 00:32:34,399
or reinforcements or thicker fabric

590
00:32:38,149 --> 00:32:36,960
the net result is that you need more

591
00:32:41,669 --> 00:32:38,159
volume to pack that

592
00:32:44,710 --> 00:32:41,679
fabric in we don't have any more volume

593
00:32:47,750 --> 00:32:44,720
it's going to require people to be

594
00:32:51,750 --> 00:32:47,760
brave especially managers

595
00:32:53,990 --> 00:32:51,760
to be brave because the certainty

596
00:32:54,950 --> 00:32:54,000
that we have the job done is going to

597
00:32:56,149 --> 00:32:54,960
come very late

598
00:32:58,549 --> 00:32:56,159
and that's going to make everybody

599
00:33:00,549 --> 00:32:58,559
nervous our next pass through this if it

600
00:33:04,890 --> 00:33:00,559
doesn't come together

601
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:08,830
[Music]

602
00:33:15,350 --> 00:33:10,370
over

603
00:33:17,269 --> 00:33:15,360
[Music]

604
00:33:18,710 --> 00:33:17,279
about a month ago we began assembly test

605
00:33:20,710 --> 00:33:18,720
and launch operations

606
00:33:23,190 --> 00:33:20,720
when the first part of the flight units

607
00:33:24,950 --> 00:33:23,200
are or in our case engineering models

608
00:33:26,630 --> 00:33:24,960
are beginning to be integrated in the

609
00:33:27,830 --> 00:33:26,640
assembly facility where the spacecraft

610
00:33:29,830 --> 00:33:27,840
goes together

611
00:33:31,350 --> 00:33:29,840
that's a big deal because it indicates

612
00:33:33,350 --> 00:33:31,360
that you're now

613
00:33:34,789 --> 00:33:33,360
have completed enough fabrication that

614
00:33:36,950 --> 00:33:34,799
you can begin the test phase

615
00:33:40,070 --> 00:33:36,960
and begin to understand what it is we

616
00:33:42,389 --> 00:33:40,080
really have designed and built

617
00:33:43,669 --> 00:33:42,399
and where did we build it a certain way

618
00:33:45,669 --> 00:33:43,679
and it behaves in a way that's

619
00:33:47,430 --> 00:33:45,679
unexpected and to fix those problems so

620
00:33:49,830 --> 00:33:47,440
that at the end of that test period

621
00:33:51,029 --> 00:33:49,840
we know exactly what the article will do

622
00:33:52,950 --> 00:33:51,039
so we can send it to mars with

623
00:33:55,430 --> 00:33:52,960
confidence

624
00:33:57,110 --> 00:33:55,440
we are doing two shifts per day we

625
00:33:59,909 --> 00:33:57,120
started that from the very beginning

626
00:34:02,070 --> 00:33:59,919
we knew it would be a a challenge but i

627
00:34:04,789 --> 00:34:02,080
don't think we adequately assessed

628
00:34:06,250 --> 00:34:04,799
how difficult it would be i think that's

629
00:34:08,550 --> 00:34:06,260
been the biggest surprise

630
00:34:10,950 --> 00:34:08,560
[Music]

631
00:34:13,190 --> 00:34:10,960
the trouble is it's great on paper but

632
00:34:16,389 --> 00:34:13,200
until you put it out there and test it

633
00:34:19,109 --> 00:34:16,399
you really don't know what you have

634
00:34:20,230 --> 00:34:19,119
so our electronics are failing at our

635
00:34:22,310 --> 00:34:20,240
vibration tests

636
00:34:23,589 --> 00:34:22,320
sometimes we find it's a real problem in

637
00:34:42,570 --> 00:34:23,599
other cases we realize there's nothing

638
00:34:42,580 --> 00:34:58,710
[Music]

639
00:34:58,720 --> 00:35:09,349
clear this off

640
00:35:13,589 --> 00:35:12,950
there's two camps of assembling and

641
00:35:16,870 --> 00:35:13,599
testing

642
00:35:19,430 --> 00:35:16,880
the rovers and the spacecraft as a whole

643
00:35:19,910 --> 00:35:19,440
the assembly test and launch operations

644
00:35:21,589 --> 00:35:19,920
team

645
00:35:23,030 --> 00:35:21,599
is assembling the flight hardware the

646
00:35:24,630 --> 00:35:23,040
stuff that's actually going to go to

647
00:35:27,349 --> 00:35:24,640
mars

648
00:35:28,630 --> 00:35:27,359
our area the integration and test area

649
00:35:31,270 --> 00:35:28,640
has our own lab

650
00:35:32,630 --> 00:35:31,280
which is a clean room and a sandbox

651
00:35:35,670 --> 00:35:32,640
where we have rovers that we

652
00:35:37,829 --> 00:35:35,680
test in the dirt so we receive

653
00:35:39,990 --> 00:35:37,839
one set of electronics the brains of the

654
00:35:42,790 --> 00:35:40,000
spacecraft

655
00:35:44,790 --> 00:35:42,800
then we plug in to each connector and

656
00:35:45,990 --> 00:35:44,800
make sure that each connector works and

657
00:35:48,390 --> 00:35:46,000
we start

658
00:35:49,270 --> 00:35:48,400
slowly building up a spacecraft on a

659
00:35:51,109 --> 00:35:49,280
tabletop

660
00:35:52,630 --> 00:35:51,119
configuration where then the flight

661
00:35:54,710 --> 00:35:52,640
software team can

662
00:35:56,310 --> 00:35:54,720
come in and develop the the software

663
00:35:57,430 --> 00:35:56,320
that they need to operate each of the

664
00:36:00,150 --> 00:35:57,440
devices

665
00:36:01,829 --> 00:36:00,160
and then the as part of the test team we

666
00:36:02,710 --> 00:36:01,839
start doing higher level functional

667
00:36:04,069 --> 00:36:02,720
tests

668
00:36:05,910 --> 00:36:04,079
the other one would verify that we

669
00:36:09,910 --> 00:36:05,920
didn't have a short

670
00:36:12,150 --> 00:36:09,920
chat i like to think my job was kind of

671
00:36:15,349 --> 00:36:12,160
like working in the garage

672
00:36:17,510 --> 00:36:15,359
it was a lot of hands-on knowing how the

673
00:36:19,270 --> 00:36:17,520
vehicle operated or how the vehicle was

674
00:36:20,710 --> 00:36:19,280
put together

675
00:36:22,870 --> 00:36:20,720
you're trying to balance all these

676
00:36:24,550 --> 00:36:22,880
different groups people want to use the

677
00:36:25,190 --> 00:36:24,560
arm people want to use the mast and

678
00:36:26,390 --> 00:36:25,200
image

679
00:36:29,190 --> 00:36:26,400
people want to use both of those

680
00:36:32,310 --> 00:36:29,200
together at the same time we're

681
00:36:35,349 --> 00:36:32,320
testing in our lab they're putting these

682
00:36:37,349 --> 00:36:35,359
the real pieces together

683
00:36:39,430 --> 00:36:37,359
it was a lot i mean it was a lot of time

684
00:36:41,430 --> 00:36:39,440
it was three shifts around the clock

685
00:36:43,190 --> 00:36:41,440
every weekend and there was always

686
00:36:43,750 --> 00:36:43,200
somebody in the lab just because things

687
00:36:45,910 --> 00:36:43,760
weren't

688
00:36:47,349 --> 00:36:45,920
ready yet for us to start testing and

689
00:37:06,829 --> 00:36:47,359
your job is just to make sure that

690
00:37:06,839 --> 00:37:20,870
is

691
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:35,940
i look at my tie please

692
00:37:35,950 --> 00:37:51,870
[Applause]

693
00:37:56,790 --> 00:37:54,790
[Laughter]

694
00:37:57,829 --> 00:37:56,800
if you get a gust of wind the system

695
00:37:59,990 --> 00:37:57,839
starts to oscillate

696
00:38:02,390 --> 00:38:00,000
and when you fire your retro rockets you

697
00:38:04,230 --> 00:38:02,400
might impart an horizontal velocity so

698
00:38:06,630 --> 00:38:04,240
you might touch down with a very gentle

699
00:38:09,670 --> 00:38:06,640
vertical velocity but you might be going

700
00:38:11,829 --> 00:38:09,680
30 meters per second horizontally

701
00:38:13,349 --> 00:38:11,839
when we do statistical analysis of that

702
00:38:15,030 --> 00:38:13,359
problem for mer it came out that the

703
00:38:17,910 --> 00:38:15,040
probability of failure

704
00:38:37,270 --> 00:38:17,920
was unacceptable so we need to come up

705
00:38:40,230 --> 00:38:38,630
if you put a camera and you take two

706
00:38:42,390 --> 00:38:40,240
pictures and then you can look at the

707
00:38:43,990 --> 00:38:42,400
displacement

708
00:38:45,829 --> 00:38:44,000
in the two pictures how much you moved

709
00:38:47,270 --> 00:38:45,839
and you divided by the amount of time

710
00:38:47,910 --> 00:38:47,280
between the two images you can figure

711
00:38:50,230 --> 00:38:47,920
out how much

712
00:38:51,190 --> 00:38:50,240
what's your velocity you know the loss

713
00:38:54,310 --> 00:38:51,200
of fixes

714
00:39:07,240 --> 00:38:54,320
you know where were good to us hey this

715
00:39:07,250 --> 00:39:15,109
[Music]

716
00:39:19,349 --> 00:39:18,310
we are doing what is our most recent and

717
00:39:23,270 --> 00:39:19,359
possibly our last

718
00:39:23,990 --> 00:39:23,280
actually test taking the fido rover out

719
00:39:26,829 --> 00:39:24,000
to some

720
00:39:28,710 --> 00:39:26,839
mysterious field site we do not know

721
00:39:31,270 --> 00:39:28,720
where

722
00:39:32,790 --> 00:39:31,280
and it's a fantastic site it's an

723
00:39:34,950 --> 00:39:32,800
absolutely wonderful landing site

724
00:39:36,150 --> 00:39:34,960
it's got terrific geology and best of

725
00:39:37,670 --> 00:39:36,160
all there aren't any bushes

726
00:39:39,349 --> 00:39:37,680
because this rover doesn't like bushes

727
00:39:40,630 --> 00:39:39,359
it's good with dirt it's good with rocks

728
00:39:42,069 --> 00:39:40,640
it's terrible with bushes because it's

729
00:39:42,790 --> 00:39:42,079
designed for mars where there aren't any

730
00:39:44,150 --> 00:39:42,800
bushes

731
00:39:45,750 --> 00:39:44,160
or where at least it would be a real

732
00:39:47,589 --> 00:39:45,760
discover if we found one we're going to

733
00:39:49,589 --> 00:39:47,599
come up with more than you can possibly

734
00:39:52,150 --> 00:39:49,599
execute on a drive saw

735
00:39:53,670 --> 00:39:52,160
okay what will happen is if we get in

736
00:39:55,750 --> 00:39:53,680
there and we find out on the basis of

737
00:39:57,670 --> 00:39:55,760
uhf data that we can do remote sensing

738
00:39:58,310 --> 00:39:57,680
but we can't do idd then i'll try to get

739
00:40:00,950 --> 00:39:58,320
the full set

740
00:40:02,150 --> 00:40:00,960
point of this test is to train the

741
00:40:05,910 --> 00:40:02,160
science team

742
00:40:09,510 --> 00:40:05,920
and how to do field geology with a robot

743
00:40:11,990 --> 00:40:09,520
that is somewhere else and

744
00:40:13,030 --> 00:40:12,000
using it to simulate the kind of science

745
00:40:14,390 --> 00:40:13,040
that we're going to do

746
00:40:20,630 --> 00:40:14,400
on the martian surface with the mer

747
00:40:25,190 --> 00:40:23,109
i don't know where we are in terms of

748
00:40:26,309 --> 00:40:25,200
latitude and longitude and what state of

749
00:40:27,109 --> 00:40:26,319
the united states we're in but that

750
00:40:29,430 --> 00:40:27,119
doesn't matter

751
00:40:30,230 --> 00:40:29,440
what we do know now is we know where we

752
00:40:33,349 --> 00:40:30,240
are in

753
00:40:36,230 --> 00:40:33,359
some synthetic orbital images we've got

754
00:40:38,150 --> 00:40:36,240
images taken from overhead that simulate

755
00:40:38,950 --> 00:40:38,160
the kind of data that we'll have from

756
00:40:41,589 --> 00:40:38,960
ours

757
00:40:42,630 --> 00:40:41,599
the sowg meeting will begin in here

758
00:40:45,270 --> 00:40:42,640
promptly

759
00:40:47,190 --> 00:40:45,280
at 8 15. so at 8 15 i want everybody in

760
00:40:48,230 --> 00:40:47,200
their seats in this room quiet ready to

761
00:40:50,309 --> 00:40:48,240
go

762
00:40:51,750 --> 00:40:50,319
which rock we choose will be influenced

763
00:40:53,270 --> 00:40:51,760
not just by the geology

764
00:40:55,349 --> 00:40:53,280
but also by where we're going to go

765
00:40:57,109 --> 00:40:55,359
after that that's not something comes

766
00:40:59,190 --> 00:40:57,119
naturally to a field geologist

767
00:41:01,270 --> 00:40:59,200
we got to stay real focused on the task

768
00:41:01,829 --> 00:41:01,280
at hand which is doing the best job that

769
00:41:04,390 --> 00:41:01,839
we can

770
00:41:07,670 --> 00:41:04,400
for 10 days of really simulating the

771
00:41:09,990 --> 00:41:07,680
science that we're going to do on mars

772
00:41:10,790 --> 00:41:10,000
geology yeah yeah i know you guys love

773
00:41:12,150 --> 00:41:10,800
the pancake

774
00:41:13,349 --> 00:41:12,160
excuse me could i have attention for a

775
00:41:14,470 --> 00:41:13,359
moment yeah i know you guys love the

776
00:41:15,670 --> 00:41:14,480
hand cam panorama

777
00:41:17,430 --> 00:41:15,680
don't forget one thing you've really got

778
00:41:18,950 --> 00:41:17,440
to focus on is what the next style is

779
00:41:19,990 --> 00:41:18,960
going to be so be looking at the current

780
00:41:21,510 --> 00:41:20,000
location

781
00:41:23,190 --> 00:41:21,520
front has cam so you know what's in your

782
00:41:25,910 --> 00:41:23,200
work life okay all right

783
00:41:27,990 --> 00:41:25,920
good uh we have a western green floor i

784
00:41:30,470 --> 00:41:28,000
probably want to get this thing here

785
00:41:32,230 --> 00:41:30,480
say hey folks anybody's got questions

786
00:41:34,550 --> 00:41:32,240
issues on how to do naming

787
00:42:08,390 --> 00:41:34,560
of things roxanna wales here is our

788
00:42:13,750 --> 00:42:11,990
but so 17 18 19 three days of testing

789
00:42:17,990 --> 00:42:13,760
if we really knock them out like the two

790
00:42:22,630 --> 00:42:21,030
maybe make wasty right

791
00:42:25,510 --> 00:42:22,640
okay i mean that's just the only concern

792
00:42:27,109 --> 00:42:25,520
is that okay so the other scenario is

793
00:42:30,150 --> 00:42:27,119
then you start asking what is it even

794
00:42:33,670 --> 00:42:30,160
getting one or two of them

795
00:42:36,870 --> 00:42:33,680
it is it's worth look if 1.6

796
00:42:40,150 --> 00:42:36,880
fails that's huge and we have

797
00:42:46,390 --> 00:42:40,160
three mortars okay

798
00:42:51,510 --> 00:42:48,550
lay the parachute out like this and

799
00:42:54,710 --> 00:42:51,520
we're simply going to be relying on

800
00:42:57,349 --> 00:42:54,720
the friction with the floor

801
00:42:59,990 --> 00:42:57,359
to keep it from sucking the lines into

802
00:43:01,589 --> 00:43:00,000
the death zone

803
00:43:03,829 --> 00:43:01,599
the way i'd like is to make it to full

804
00:43:05,430 --> 00:43:03,839
inflation at center of the

805
00:43:07,030 --> 00:43:05,440
thing you just gotta but you gotta just

806
00:43:08,710 --> 00:43:07,040
you can't hit the top of the wall

807
00:43:10,829 --> 00:43:08,720
so you gotta stay safely off the top of

808
00:43:34,980 --> 00:43:10,839
the wall and that's it you go that high

809
00:43:38,470 --> 00:43:35,460
[Music]

810
00:43:45,589 --> 00:43:38,480
[Applause]

811
00:43:54,069 --> 00:43:49,829
come on come on what is that

812
00:43:59,990 --> 00:43:54,079
what is that what

813
00:44:13,030 --> 00:44:01,349
i don't know what it is what do you

814
00:44:18,950 --> 00:44:17,750
we are uh mobilizing or scrambling all

815
00:44:22,309 --> 00:44:18,960
forces

816
00:44:25,589 --> 00:44:22,319
to have a discussion at 12 p.m

817
00:44:30,470 --> 00:44:25,599
pacific on this subject

818
00:44:34,150 --> 00:44:30,480
what am i breaking up

819
00:44:37,990 --> 00:44:34,160
at any rate um yeah but

820
00:44:41,670 --> 00:44:38,000
it is a um it may be a function

821
00:44:57,030 --> 00:44:41,680
of the geometric porosity

822
00:45:01,670 --> 00:44:59,990
richard it's uh robin and tracin and

823
00:45:07,910 --> 00:45:01,680
adam and wayne is talking to

824
00:45:11,670 --> 00:45:09,670
this is not anything that was seen

825
00:45:16,230 --> 00:45:11,680
during pathfinder

826
00:45:18,150 --> 00:45:16,240
or thus far during mer's development

827
00:45:19,430 --> 00:45:18,160
just as a general policy clamp down on

828
00:45:21,910 --> 00:45:19,440
the information until

829
00:45:22,870 --> 00:45:21,920
until robin and i have had a chance to

830
00:45:33,030 --> 00:45:22,880
release

831
00:45:35,589 --> 00:45:33,040
the emails you receive yeah okay

832
00:45:36,309 --> 00:45:35,599
that's how information about this drop

833
00:45:39,270 --> 00:45:36,319
goes out

834
00:45:39,910 --> 00:45:39,280
first because i found with the airbag

835
00:45:41,910 --> 00:45:39,920
drops

836
00:45:43,670 --> 00:45:41,920
that if you make a telephone call

837
00:45:45,270 --> 00:45:43,680
somebody tells somebody else and they

838
00:45:46,230 --> 00:45:45,280
play the telephone game and by the time

839
00:45:47,829 --> 00:45:46,240
it makes it to

840
00:45:49,430 --> 00:45:47,839
up the food chain all the good words

841
00:45:50,630 --> 00:45:49,440
have been lost and only the bad words

842
00:45:52,950 --> 00:45:50,640
have remained

843
00:45:53,910 --> 00:45:52,960
but this allows you to inform your

844
00:45:55,829 --> 00:45:53,920
management before

845
00:45:57,430 --> 00:45:55,839
it gets through the grapevine yeah

846
00:46:07,270 --> 00:45:57,440
wouldn't you like to tell pete before

847
00:46:11,750 --> 00:46:10,390
that's right okay okay because number

848
00:46:37,190 --> 00:46:11,760
one i'd like to come up i mean i think

849
00:46:45,510 --> 00:46:43,190
two one fire

850
00:46:47,030 --> 00:46:45,520
there it goes look at that beautiful

851
00:46:54,790 --> 00:46:47,040
beautiful

852
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:59,670
big that is awesome

853
00:47:03,910 --> 00:47:02,069
that was perfect that's center of the

854
00:47:05,109 --> 00:47:03,920
thing everything everything awesome

855
00:47:07,910 --> 00:47:05,119
awesome awesome

856
00:47:08,390 --> 00:47:07,920
oh that's so good yeah this is totally

857
00:47:12,069 --> 00:47:08,400
cool

858
00:47:29,829 --> 00:47:12,079
great huh we are so stoked

859
00:47:36,829 --> 00:47:33,430
ten nine eight

860
00:47:40,470 --> 00:47:36,839
seven six

861
00:47:52,950 --> 00:47:40,480
five four three

862
00:48:15,910 --> 00:47:52,960
two one pull five

863
00:48:28,549 --> 00:48:19,829
can we pull the transition through no

864
00:48:32,710 --> 00:48:30,230
as soon as the transition got to the

865
00:48:34,630 --> 00:48:32,720
first roller this broke

866
00:48:36,230 --> 00:48:34,640
probably a spiking load due to the fact

867
00:48:37,190 --> 00:48:36,240
of trying to push all that extra around

868
00:48:42,549 --> 00:48:37,200
that color

869
00:48:42,559 --> 00:48:47,589
i hope they do

870
00:48:54,309 --> 00:48:51,270
hey babe how are you

871
00:48:56,549 --> 00:48:54,319
oh really oh no

872
00:48:58,230 --> 00:48:56,559
things are going couldn't be going any

873
00:49:01,190 --> 00:48:58,240
worse

874
00:49:03,109 --> 00:49:01,200
yeah oh no no not that's not clear we're

875
00:49:04,790 --> 00:49:03,119
going to decide the next uh

876
00:49:07,430 --> 00:49:04,800
next half hour here what we're going to

877
00:49:13,030 --> 00:49:07,440
do and i'll call you when i find out

878
00:49:17,750 --> 00:49:16,069
oh oh my little transition joint why

879
00:49:21,510 --> 00:49:17,760
couldn't you have gone a little further

880
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:25,510
well i made it

881
00:49:33,270 --> 00:49:31,109
transition joy made it

882
00:49:34,549 --> 00:49:33,280
that was 104. we got to get this thing

883
00:49:35,750 --> 00:49:34,559
fixed because this

884
00:49:37,829 --> 00:49:35,760
we don't have a mission without this

885
00:49:38,630 --> 00:49:37,839
device yeah please we we just got to

886
00:49:40,870 --> 00:49:38,640
test some more

887
00:49:41,829 --> 00:49:40,880
you put this on a cd for me and let me

888
00:50:01,430 --> 00:49:41,839
take it home

889
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:26,420
okay yeah let's do that

890
00:50:26,430 --> 00:50:37,640
[Applause]

891
00:52:19,760 --> 00:50:46,630
[Music]

892
00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:19,770
take a little trip to me

893
00:52:22,650 --> 00:52:20,530
[Applause]

894
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:22,660
[Music]

895
00:52:38,630 --> 00:52:24,490
[Applause]

896
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:50,230
let's start moving them out guys okay

897
00:52:50,240 --> 00:52:58,829
[Applause]

898
00:52:58,839 --> 00:53:02,050
wow

899
00:53:05,740 --> 00:53:02,410
[Music]

900
00:53:08,630 --> 00:53:05,750
[Applause]

901
00:53:14,069 --> 00:53:08,640
[Music]

902
00:53:17,190 --> 00:53:14,079
just can't wait to get on the road again

903
00:53:19,109 --> 00:53:17,200
making music with my friends and i can't

904
00:53:21,430 --> 00:53:19,119
wait to get on the road again

905
00:53:28,069 --> 00:53:21,440
oh guys you're on the camera on the road

906
00:53:31,750 --> 00:53:28,079
again top of that pathfinder

907
00:53:44,630 --> 00:53:31,760
seeing things that i may never see again

908
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:48,309
my last convoy

909
00:53:55,270 --> 00:53:49,589
well we're coming to an end we've been

910
00:53:57,270 --> 00:53:55,280
about 2 425 miles we got another 150

911
00:53:59,109 --> 00:53:57,280
miles or so to go and

912
00:54:00,870 --> 00:53:59,119
we'll be finishing up this particular

913
00:54:05,190 --> 00:54:00,880
wide load convoy

914
00:54:07,589 --> 00:54:05,200
which will be my last convoy over the

915
00:54:09,430 --> 00:54:07,599
41 years i've worked at jpl but it's

916
00:54:11,750 --> 00:54:09,440
been a

917
00:54:13,270 --> 00:54:11,760
quite an experience this is my 19th

918
00:54:15,109 --> 00:54:13,280
mission that i've worked on

919
00:54:16,309 --> 00:54:15,119
of course the role i also used to play

920
00:54:18,470 --> 00:54:16,319
most of the time

921
00:54:20,150 --> 00:54:18,480
was the spacecraft test engineer where i

922
00:54:21,750 --> 00:54:20,160
was actually out on the floor

923
00:54:23,030 --> 00:54:21,760
doing the electrical integration putting

924
00:54:24,069 --> 00:54:23,040
things together and then somehow or

925
00:54:25,990 --> 00:54:24,079
another i

926
00:54:28,549 --> 00:54:26,000
started picking up doing the logistics

927
00:54:31,910 --> 00:54:28,559
part as far as the transportation

928
00:54:33,190 --> 00:54:31,920
my first trip down here not convoy the

929
00:54:38,870 --> 00:54:33,200
project was

930
00:54:40,309 --> 00:54:38,880
ranger six that was of 1962.

931
00:54:43,910 --> 00:54:40,319
things are a lot different down here

932
00:54:50,829 --> 00:54:47,270
it's been a real experience

933
00:54:53,190 --> 00:54:50,839
quite a ride couldn't want it ain't

934
00:54:56,549 --> 00:54:53,200
better

935
00:54:57,990 --> 00:54:56,559
now it's been documented so i don't have

936
00:54:58,950 --> 00:54:58,000
to tell it over and over again i can

937
00:55:03,750 --> 00:54:58,960
show them the video

938
00:55:26,069 --> 00:55:05,190
how about if we pull all the trucks up

939
00:55:26,079 --> 00:55:41,400
rolling here we go

940
00:55:48,240 --> 00:55:46,829
[Music]

941
00:56:05,830 --> 00:55:48,250
oh

942
00:56:24,230 --> 00:56:15,190
[Music]

943
00:56:30,870 --> 00:56:24,240
t minus 10 9 8 7

944
00:56:33,670 --> 00:56:30,880
6 green board

945
00:56:36,150 --> 00:56:33,680
and liftoff of the delta ii rocket

946
00:56:39,750 --> 00:56:36,160
carrying the spirit from earth to planet

947
00:56:56,470 --> 00:56:43,850
load relief is responding

948
00:56:56,480 --> 00:57:03,370
for this

949
00:57:12,900 --> 00:57:10,390
[Music]

950
00:57:15,890 --> 00:57:12,910
nice clean signature there

951
00:58:32,670 --> 00:57:15,900
[Applause]

952
00:58:48,829 --> 00:58:34,829
[Music]

953
00:58:48,839 --> 00:58:54,280
so