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live from nasa's jet propulsion

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laboratory in pasadena california and on

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mars i want to present to you the team

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that has brought us back to mars tonight

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come on

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there they are

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over here john

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all right let's give them one more round

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of applause now that we've got them all

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up here thank you very much

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well good evening everybody and welcome

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to mars i mean

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about an hour and a half ago i went

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outside and looked toward the west

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and i saw mars

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there and i said in an hour and a half

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you are going to have a visitor

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and the planet smiled and i knew that we

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were going to have good luck

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so with this i want to introduce you our

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fearless leader charlie borden

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boy i'll tell you

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charles thanks very much first of all

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just let me let me say thanks very much

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to the entire team and all the teams not

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here uh some of the teams in places like

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canberra australia and up in goldstone

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because the deep space network was what

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made it possible for us to be getting

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all the data and everything so

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you know but today right now the wheels

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of curiosity have begun to blaze the

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trail for human footprints on mars

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uh curiosity the most sophisticated

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rover ever built is now on the surface

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of the red planet

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where it will seek to answer age-old

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questions about whether life ever

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existed there on mars or if the planet

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can sustain life in the future

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this is an amazing achievement

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made possible by a team of scientists

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and engineers from around the world and

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led by the extraordinary men and women

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of nasa in our jet propulsion laboratory

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nothing in robotic planetary exploration

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is harder more technically challenging

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or as risky as landing on the surface of

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mars and i know most of you are saying

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how can he be saying that it just looks

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so easy

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trust me

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historically counting all the missions

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by all countries the odds of success are

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about 40 percent

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the recent u.s record is better with now

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six successful missions

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including now four landings and um i'm

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going to stray from my script here for a

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moment which is always dangerous but

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tonight uh and i'm not gonna i'm not

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probably not gonna include all the

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countries but tonight

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there are at least four countries and i

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won't name them uh

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who are on mars

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and they're on mars because they went

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with the united states so

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i know this may sound a little strange

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in this international environment but i

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want everyone to understand what i say

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and what i mean when i say you know our

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leadership is going to make this world

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as in as incredible as our feet was

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we just succeeded one more time in

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raising the bar even higher

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new technologies never invented or

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attempted before were created for this

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incredible journey

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curiosity's final descent was dubbed

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seven minutes of terror because in its

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seven minute trip to the surface it had

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to slow down from 13 000 miles an hour

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to zero

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that's like driving 65 miles an hour on

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a freeway and coming to a complete stop

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in about 2.1 seconds hundreds of other

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things had to go just right including a

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parachute slow down at supersonic speed

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eight rocket engines to power our final

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descent and final soft landing by a new

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curiosity will spend the next two years

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seeking answers to one of humanity's

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oldest questions it is as it

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investigates whether conditions have

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favored development of microbial life on

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the red planet

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president obama has laid out a bold

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vision for sending humans to mars and

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today's landing marks a significant step

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toward achieving this goal and now it's

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my pleasure to introduce to you

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a very dear friend of mine he is the

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president science advisor the the

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director of the office of science and

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technology policy and a guy who was

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sweating through this and uh as he told

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me a little while ago he thought he was

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and he's probably mad because i told you

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that but my friend dr john holdren

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i wanted to start by saying thank you

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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 which is as charlie has said

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the most sophisticated roving laboratory

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ever sent to another planet marks what

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tour de force it will stand as an

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american point of pride far into the

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future it's also just the latest example

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of a long-standing truth about the

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united states

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that even the longest of odds are no

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match for america's unique blend of

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technical acumen and gutsy determination

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and that's certainly for all of the

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folks at jpl at caltech at nasa and our

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partners whose instruments as charlie

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has pointed out we're on this uh this

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lander uh thanks big thanks are due

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uh to all of them

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continued preeminence and progress in

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space

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and here on earth in other domains such

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as biomedicine and health care

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all of this depends on our continuing

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commitment to science technology and

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innovation and the passion for adventure

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that has driven us to explore new worlds

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by sustaining our investments in basic

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research and exploration we ensure that

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america will remain at the forefront of

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the scientific frontier so i really want

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to personally congratulate on behalf of

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myself but also on behalf of my boss

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president obama

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the team here at jpl at nasa and around

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the country that contributed to this

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spectacular achievement i can only

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imagine what incredible data and new

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understandings are going to be uncovered

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in the coming days months and years

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because of this success

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landing the mars science laboratory

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rover curiosity on the surface of the

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red planet was by any measure the most

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challenging mission ever attempted in

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the history of robotic planetary

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exploration

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and if anybody has been harboring doubts

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about the status of u.s leadership in

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space

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well there's a one-ton automobile-sized

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and it's sitting on the surface of mars

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right now and it should certainly put

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any such doubts to rest president obama

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has challenged america as administrator

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bolden just said to send humans to mars

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in the 2030s and curiosity is going to

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provide critical information about the

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red planet and what our astronauts will

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find once they arrive

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the administration is committed to a

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vibrant and coordinated strategy of mars

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exploration and planetary exploration

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more generally and continuing america's

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leadership here on earth and throughout

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the solar system so congratulations

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again and long live american curiosity

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let me thank all of you one more time

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john holden and i unfortunately have got

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to go boogie to go somewhere else we're

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going to leave you in the in the in the

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very erstwhile hands of charles alachi

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and the technical team and and they've

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got a little bit more detail stuff to

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tell you so

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have a great night and congratulations

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to all of you again

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okay guys before we start we have a new

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here comes the rest of the edl team

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team entering right now

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so what is your order

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i'm sure all of you want to hear about

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well tonight was was a great drama that

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was played i felt like an adventure

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movie but in reality i kept telling

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myself this is real this is real what's

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happening and what a fantastic

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demonstration

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of what our nation and our agency you

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know 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 though 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 you know today i can

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also only think about the olympians here

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we had our team which went to the

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olympics

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we were not sure we were going to win

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but this team came back with the gold

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and and just think what an inspiration

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to the young people in the world

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by watching what these young people and

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old people like me

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have accomplished it's really inspiring

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i just was talking to my daughter and

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she was crying you know about it how

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exciting this is how inspirational so we

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hope that the tens of millions of people

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who have been sharing this adventure

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with us will be the people who will be

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carrying the torch you know and

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continuing our exploration of the solar

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system

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and what a bargain that we got this

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mission for

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this movie costed you less than seven

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bucks per american citizen and look at

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the excitement that we have brought and

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and tonight we just did the landing

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tomorrow we're going to start exploring

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mars

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and next week and next month and next

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year we'll be bringing new new discovery

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every day every week to all of you and

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we are going to continue not only

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exploring mars but exploring the solar

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system and exploring the universe

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because our curiosity has no limit thank

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you all and i'm going to introduce john

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grunsfeld who's the head of space

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science at nasa

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do we have sound

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you know we said

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before uh landing this afternoon charles

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and i hear

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that that mars is hard and success is

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not guaranteed

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there are many out in the community who

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say that nasa has lost its way that we

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don't know how to explore that we've

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lost our moxie i want you to look around

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tonight all those folks with the blue

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shirts

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think about what we've achieved

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i think it's fair to say that nasa knows

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how to explore we've been exploring

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and we're on mars

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[Applause]

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and while

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it certainly is an international

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collaboration and we welcome the

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participation

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uh

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this feat this feat that you've seen

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tonight is something that only the

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united states of america can do

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and just to stay in character we've been

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on the surface

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for one hour

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eight minutes and 16 seconds

321
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[Applause]

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the last eight months

323
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and certainly for the seven minutes of

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terror

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has started to weave you know an

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unbelievable story

327
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as we get ready to transition to surface

328
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ops

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i think what we really need to pay

330
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attention to now

331
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is that the curiosity story is just

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beginning and with that

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i'll turn it over to the team

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[Applause]

335
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i think you can tell that the team is

336
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this hasn't been an incredible feeling

337
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for uh for me personally

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um

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not only to be associated with such a

340
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tremendous event but to um have the

341
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privilege

342
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uh to be able to

343
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to be asked to lead such an incredible

344
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team of people

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i mean

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as easy as it looked tonight

347
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and it wasn't but as easy as it looked

348
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tonight is because of the people in the

349
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blue shirts are standing around you

350
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and because of thousands of others

351
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around this country around the world who

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worked on this for for seven eight years

353
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to cause us to come to being

354
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i mean they've done an incredible job it

355
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is

356
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there's words cannot state the kind of

357
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job that they've done

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um

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eight years ago i sat on this stage

360
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and talked to some of you

361
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uh after the landing of spirit and then

362
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three weeks later after the landing of

363
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opportunity

364
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and i never thought i would ever say

365
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this

366
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[Applause]

367
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i want to thank everyone who worked so

368
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hard on this this project directly

369
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some of the people who who've left the

370
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project because their work has been done

371
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and and but they're with us in spirit

372
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tonight and and have shared in the

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success

374
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i want to thank and i want them to thank

375
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all the support

376
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of them their their significant others

377
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and their families and their friends

378
00:23:46,470 --> 00:23:44,559
this work is very hard it's very

379
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demanding and without the support at the

380
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home front it can't be done successfully

381
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and i know

382
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i know that my wife is without whom i

383
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could not do this job is is is a

384
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wonderful person i'm sure that the team

385
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shares that attribute with their

386
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families as well

387
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but i especially want to thank and i

388
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especially want to recognize the

389
00:24:07,750 --> 00:24:05,760
gentleman who's sitting to my left and

390
00:24:10,149 --> 00:24:07,760
that's richard cook

391
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he has put blood sweat and tears into

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this project

393
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but

394
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successful without him tonight and and

395
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and when you look at his record

396
00:24:27,669 --> 00:24:24,159
uh pathfinder

397
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two mers and this one unparalleled in in

398
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the country today i mean just

399
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so i'll now let him humbly accept your

400
00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:52,149
so that rocked seriously is that that

401
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[Applause]

402
00:25:06,390 --> 00:25:03,750
i have been lucky enough to have done

403
00:25:08,470 --> 00:25:06,400
this now four times and it never gets

404
00:25:10,470 --> 00:25:08,480
old seriously it's just a great

405
00:25:12,230 --> 00:25:10,480
experience and there are some people out

406
00:25:13,510 --> 00:25:12,240
there rob manning and dara sabai and

407
00:25:15,669 --> 00:25:13,520
some of the other folks who have done

408
00:25:17,190 --> 00:25:15,679
this as many times and i know they all

409
00:25:18,870 --> 00:25:17,200
just had the exact same experience as i

410
00:25:20,870 --> 00:25:18,880
did tonight which just gets better every

411
00:25:21,750 --> 00:25:20,880
time just as amazing pathfinder was

412
00:25:24,870 --> 00:25:21,760
great

413
00:25:27,269 --> 00:25:24,880
but we were young and stupid frankly and

414
00:25:29,350 --> 00:25:27,279
uh and now to have an appreciation for

415
00:25:32,310 --> 00:25:29,360
how hard it is and how much effort it

416
00:25:33,990 --> 00:25:32,320
takes from a as pete said a team of

417
00:25:36,470 --> 00:25:34,000
hundreds of and thousands of people

418
00:25:39,669 --> 00:25:36,480
around the world is uh it's it's just

419
00:25:41,350 --> 00:25:39,679
it's inspiring and it's a little bit uh

420
00:25:43,510 --> 00:25:41,360
overwhelming at times how much effort

421
00:25:45,830 --> 00:25:43,520
has been required and how much everybody

422
00:25:48,149 --> 00:25:45,840
deserves this great success we've had i

423
00:25:49,909 --> 00:25:48,159
can't let pete compliment me without

424
00:25:51,269 --> 00:25:49,919
returning it and you know there is the

425
00:25:53,510 --> 00:25:51,279
guy who's been in charge of three of

426
00:25:55,110 --> 00:25:53,520
these things um there's pretty much

427
00:25:56,870 --> 00:25:55,120
nothing nobody else in the world has

428
00:25:59,350 --> 00:25:56,880
that record to be a project manager for

429
00:26:01,510 --> 00:25:59,360
three mars landings um and so i think

430
00:26:03,269 --> 00:26:01,520
that he's gonna have that

431
00:26:05,029 --> 00:26:03,279
no matter what he does from now on he's

432
00:26:06,950 --> 00:26:05,039
gonna know that he's the only guy in the

433
00:26:20,789 --> 00:26:06,960
world that's ever done that so

434
00:26:23,909 --> 00:26:22,470
okay well then i want to also compliment

435
00:26:25,430 --> 00:26:23,919
the two guys to my left here let me

436
00:26:28,230 --> 00:26:25,440
start with the one furthest on the left

437
00:26:30,230 --> 00:26:28,240
there who's who is he's now got the keys

438
00:26:32,870 --> 00:26:30,240
he's the guy that uh that's gonna make

439
00:26:34,390 --> 00:26:32,880
this thing us just go down in the record

440
00:26:36,310 --> 00:26:34,400
books as far as what we were able to

441
00:26:37,669 --> 00:26:36,320
learn on the surface and i know he's

442
00:26:39,510 --> 00:26:37,679
already looking at the pictures saying

443
00:26:41,669 --> 00:26:39,520
is that mount sharp what can i see there

444
00:26:43,990 --> 00:26:41,679
and all kinds of stuff and so he's

445
00:26:45,669 --> 00:26:44,000
definitely he's got the keys pretty soon

446
00:26:46,870 --> 00:26:45,679
not quite yet but pretty soon he'll have

447
00:26:49,350 --> 00:26:46,880
the keys

448
00:26:51,750 --> 00:26:49,360
yeah and uh and and he'll make some

449
00:26:53,350 --> 00:26:51,760
great uh some some great uh history out

450
00:26:54,789 --> 00:26:53,360
of what uh what we've been able to do

451
00:26:57,590 --> 00:26:54,799
with this thing on the surface and and i

452
00:27:00,070 --> 00:26:57,600
know curiosity um will will as i said

453
00:27:01,510 --> 00:27:00,080
really be a set the record go down in

454
00:27:03,909 --> 00:27:01,520
the record books is an amazing

455
00:27:06,070 --> 00:27:03,919
scientific mission uh but i can't let

456
00:27:09,909 --> 00:27:06,080
the guy in between me go my friend here

457
00:27:12,310 --> 00:27:09,919
uh dr stelzner is is been the the father

458
00:27:14,710 --> 00:27:12,320
and the mother and everything in between

459
00:27:17,029 --> 00:27:14,720
of of the landing system we've we've

460
00:27:19,669 --> 00:27:17,039
built and uh and certainly has been its

461
00:27:22,230 --> 00:27:19,679
biggest proponent i remember the going

462
00:27:23,590 --> 00:27:22,240
to reviews and and him saying hey i

463
00:27:25,590 --> 00:27:23,600
think this thing can work and you guys

464
00:27:28,389 --> 00:27:25,600
just have to give the team a chance

465
00:27:30,710 --> 00:27:28,399
seven eight years ago and uh and then

466
00:27:33,590 --> 00:27:30,720
just stuck with it through every uh

467
00:27:35,510 --> 00:27:33,600
failed test through every uh review that

468
00:27:38,870 --> 00:27:35,520
didn't quite work out the way we wanted

469
00:27:41,830 --> 00:27:38,880
it uh and so he is uh really deserves a

470
00:27:43,669 --> 00:27:41,840
humong huge amount of credit for what uh

471
00:27:46,149 --> 00:27:43,679
for what's happened tonight and uh

472
00:27:49,470 --> 00:27:46,159
hopefully everybody appreciates his his

473
00:28:03,930 --> 00:27:49,480
contributions i know i certainly do so

474
00:28:08,549 --> 00:28:03,940
[Applause]

475
00:28:08,559 --> 00:28:12,630
say something profound

476
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:17,750
i am terribly humbled by this experience

477
00:28:21,990 --> 00:28:19,350
i

478
00:28:24,630 --> 00:28:22,000
forever secretly

479
00:28:27,430 --> 00:28:24,640
have felt that i do not deserve to be in

480
00:28:29,510 --> 00:28:27,440
the position of leading the team that i

481
00:28:32,070 --> 00:28:29,520
lead

482
00:28:34,070 --> 00:28:32,080
because they are

483
00:28:35,830 --> 00:28:34,080
certainly in some

484
00:28:38,870 --> 00:28:35,840
and

485
00:28:40,070 --> 00:28:38,880
largely by count of individual more

486
00:28:45,029 --> 00:28:40,080
capable

487
00:28:48,950 --> 00:28:47,590
that great things

488
00:28:51,110 --> 00:28:48,960
take

489
00:28:53,350 --> 00:28:51,120
many people working together to make

490
00:28:55,909 --> 00:28:53,360
them happen is one of the fantastic

491
00:28:56,789 --> 00:28:55,919
things of human existence

492
00:29:00,549 --> 00:28:56,799
and

493
00:29:03,510 --> 00:29:00,559
in my life i am

494
00:29:05,350 --> 00:29:03,520
and will be forever satisfied if this is

495
00:29:09,269 --> 00:29:05,360
the greatest thing that i have ever

496
00:29:13,750 --> 00:29:11,510
there is a new picture

497
00:29:16,149 --> 00:29:13,760
of a new place on mars

498
00:29:17,669 --> 00:29:16,159
and for me at least

499
00:29:20,149 --> 00:29:17,679
that's the big

500
00:29:21,990 --> 00:29:20,159
payoff

501
00:29:24,149 --> 00:29:22,000
and to work

502
00:29:27,590 --> 00:29:24,159
as part of such a talented group of

503
00:29:29,190 --> 00:29:27,600
people shepherded by pete and richard

504
00:29:31,430 --> 00:29:29,200
and i'm not just talking about the edl

505
00:29:32,870 --> 00:29:31,440
team i'm talking about the entire team

506
00:29:35,590 --> 00:29:32,880
soup to nuts

507
00:29:37,430 --> 00:29:35,600
the caliber of people here at jpl the

508
00:29:39,990 --> 00:29:37,440
other centers who contribute

509
00:29:43,430 --> 00:29:40,000
it's a tremendous honor and it is a

510
00:29:45,029 --> 00:29:43,440
humbling experience to work with them

511
00:29:48,389 --> 00:29:45,039
and i

512
00:29:55,190 --> 00:29:52,070
is a truly great representation of a of

513
00:29:56,149 --> 00:29:55,200
a corner or a piece of humanity

514
00:29:59,350 --> 00:29:56,159
that

515
00:30:02,630 --> 00:29:59,360
reaches out and explores and conquers

516
00:30:05,190 --> 00:30:02,640
and engineers we are

517
00:30:07,190 --> 00:30:05,200
kind of tool makers

518
00:30:08,789 --> 00:30:07,200
agriculturalists

519
00:30:09,669 --> 00:30:08,799
pioneers

520
00:30:16,950 --> 00:30:09,679
and

521
00:30:18,070 --> 00:30:16,960
results of tonight

522
00:30:19,990 --> 00:30:18,080
so

523
00:30:22,550 --> 00:30:20,000
i want to say thank you

524
00:30:45,110 --> 00:30:22,560
to the blue shirts

525
00:30:47,750 --> 00:30:45,120
[Applause]

526
00:30:49,750 --> 00:30:47,760
adam and his wife are expecting a baby

527
00:30:58,389 --> 00:30:49,760
in three weeks so we wish them the great

528
00:31:04,470 --> 00:31:00,870
child number two yes my second daughter

529
00:31:07,909 --> 00:31:04,480
comes in in just a few weeks here

530
00:31:09,669 --> 00:31:07,919
we've my wife has been calm at home or

531
00:31:11,590 --> 00:31:09,679
actually she's in beckman auditorium but

532
00:31:12,950 --> 00:31:11,600
she was debating because the last thing

533
00:31:16,789 --> 00:31:12,960
we didn't want to have is two babies

534
00:31:21,029 --> 00:31:19,269
a couple of other

535
00:31:23,669 --> 00:31:21,039
groups of folks that i'd like to thank

536
00:31:24,870 --> 00:31:23,679
that i think we all are thankful for uh

537
00:31:27,909 --> 00:31:24,880
certainly

538
00:31:30,630 --> 00:31:27,919
this beautiful theater of tonight the

539
00:31:33,669 --> 00:31:30,640
drama of us all being able to experience

540
00:31:35,430 --> 00:31:33,679
it together comes through the efforts of

541
00:31:39,590 --> 00:31:35,440
the odyssey

542
00:31:44,070 --> 00:31:39,600
that team being able to get that bent

543
00:31:47,669 --> 00:31:45,269
unrivaled

544
00:31:51,029 --> 00:31:47,679
in the experience for all of us and

545
00:31:53,190 --> 00:31:51,039
naturally the dsn and the uh and the

546
00:31:55,110 --> 00:31:53,200
x-band telemetry that really allowed us

547
00:32:12,230 --> 00:31:55,120
to back that up

548
00:32:19,070 --> 00:32:13,909
and with that really i have nothing more

549
00:32:27,990 --> 00:32:25,909
[Applause]

550
00:32:29,909 --> 00:32:28,000
thank you adam for getting us on the on

551
00:32:33,909 --> 00:32:29,919
the surface i think that is the best

552
00:32:39,430 --> 00:32:35,909
and

553
00:32:41,509 --> 00:32:39,440
i can guarantee you in the days

554
00:32:42,710 --> 00:32:41,519
uh hours and months and years from now

555
00:32:44,230 --> 00:32:42,720
you're going to be hearing about an

556
00:32:45,830 --> 00:32:44,240
incredible science story and i'm not

557
00:32:47,029 --> 00:32:45,840
going to bore you with that tonight

558
00:32:50,310 --> 00:32:47,039
you're going to have to wait for that

559
00:32:52,149 --> 00:32:50,320
one because on behalf of everybody on

560
00:32:54,950 --> 00:32:52,159
the science team

561
00:32:57,750 --> 00:32:54,960
406 team members

562
00:33:00,149 --> 00:32:57,760
we thank everybody that was involved in

563
00:33:01,110 --> 00:33:00,159
this enterprise charles pete richard

564
00:33:03,350 --> 00:33:01,120
adam

565
00:33:07,509 --> 00:33:03,360
everybody that pulled this together

566
00:33:09,070 --> 00:33:07,519
there were over 3 500 jpl employees i

567
00:33:10,950 --> 00:33:09,080
won't count contractors in

568
00:33:13,029 --> 00:33:10,960
subcontractors but i'm sure there were

569
00:33:15,909 --> 00:33:13,039
thousands more

570
00:33:17,990 --> 00:33:15,919
nine science instruments

571
00:33:19,590 --> 00:33:18,000
10 science instruments nine principal

572
00:33:21,509 --> 00:33:19,600
investigators

573
00:33:23,909 --> 00:33:21,519
seven countries

574
00:33:25,590 --> 00:33:23,919
germany france spain russia denmark

575
00:33:28,149 --> 00:33:25,600
britain canada

576
00:33:29,509 --> 00:33:28,159
all of us are the beneficiaries of your

577
00:33:31,350 --> 00:33:29,519
hard work

578
00:33:34,070 --> 00:33:31,360
we've hardly even scratched the surface

579
00:33:35,029 --> 00:33:34,080
and you're seeing it right there

580
00:33:36,389 --> 00:33:35,039
and

581
00:33:38,310 --> 00:33:36,399
i just want to leave you with one

582
00:33:40,310 --> 00:33:38,320
thought about what this success brings

583
00:33:42,470 --> 00:33:40,320
to everybody that is involved in this

584
00:33:44,310 --> 00:33:42,480
enterprise

585
00:33:47,029 --> 00:33:44,320
there is no greater inspiration for

586
00:33:49,350 --> 00:33:47,039
middle school children that are going to

587
00:33:51,029 --> 00:33:49,360
math science and engineering

588
00:33:53,029 --> 00:33:51,039
than a mission to mars

589
00:33:54,470 --> 00:33:53,039
the number of hits on the website is

590
00:33:56,789 --> 00:33:54,480
unparalleled

591
00:33:59,909 --> 00:33:56,799
the emphasis on the excitement that this

592
00:34:03,669 --> 00:33:59,919
generates is what we bestow upon our

593
00:34:07,909 --> 00:34:06,310
the money two and a half billion dollars

594
00:34:10,950 --> 00:34:07,919
we don't put it in the rover and send it

595
00:34:13,430 --> 00:34:10,960
to mars we spend it here on earth

596
00:34:15,510 --> 00:34:13,440
and charles mentioned at the beginning

597
00:34:17,190 --> 00:34:15,520
that this whole enterprise if you divide

598
00:34:19,190 --> 00:34:17,200
it by every woman child man in this

599
00:34:21,829 --> 00:34:19,200
country comes out to be the cost of the

600
00:34:23,430 --> 00:34:21,839
movie i know i speak on behalf of all my

601
00:34:24,710 --> 00:34:23,440
colleagues in science that's a movie i

602
00:34:36,100 --> 00:34:24,720
want to see

603
00:34:54,550 --> 00:34:50,680
[Applause]

604
00:34:58,870 --> 00:34:55,829
okay we're going to open it up to

605
00:35:00,470 --> 00:34:58,880
questions now from the news media and um

606
00:35:02,630 --> 00:35:00,480
let me wait for a microphone to come

607
00:35:03,829 --> 00:35:02,640
over to you and go ahead and give us

608
00:35:08,230 --> 00:35:03,839
your name and affiliation right there in

609
00:35:13,270 --> 00:35:10,230
help with

610
00:35:14,390 --> 00:35:13,280
america's space

611
00:35:20,470 --> 00:35:14,400
adam

612
00:35:26,390 --> 00:35:23,190
all right greg um

613
00:35:27,270 --> 00:35:26,400
i can't tell you too much about it

614
00:35:30,230 --> 00:35:27,280
i mean

615
00:35:30,240 --> 00:35:34,230
i'm being a little flip

616
00:35:40,310 --> 00:35:38,710
in short it looked extremely clean

617
00:35:41,510 --> 00:35:40,320
we had

618
00:35:43,589 --> 00:35:41,520
yeah

619
00:35:49,750 --> 00:35:43,599
we had

620
00:35:52,790 --> 00:35:49,760
that were um on the more benign side of

621
00:35:55,349 --> 00:35:52,800
our nominal expectation

622
00:35:57,270 --> 00:35:55,359
our um

623
00:36:00,150 --> 00:35:57,280
by the way i want to preface everything

624
00:36:02,069 --> 00:36:00,160
this is preliminary data scooped with

625
00:36:04,630 --> 00:36:02,079
the sieve in the

626
00:36:07,190 --> 00:36:04,640
cacophony of the

627
00:36:09,190 --> 00:36:07,200
control room during the celebration

628
00:36:10,950 --> 00:36:09,200
right and largely by my

629
00:36:13,270 --> 00:36:10,960
good friend miguel san martin who's

630
00:36:15,030 --> 00:36:13,280
somewhere out there

631
00:36:17,750 --> 00:36:15,040
i hope

632
00:36:22,950 --> 00:36:20,230
very nominal

633
00:36:27,510 --> 00:36:22,960
remarkably good

634
00:36:30,150 --> 00:36:27,520
our navigation error was uh was

635
00:36:32,150 --> 00:36:30,160
on the low side of our expectation

636
00:36:34,069 --> 00:36:32,160
which meant that we probably had a good

637
00:36:37,270 --> 00:36:34,079
alignment between the celestial center

638
00:36:38,829 --> 00:36:37,280
sensors and the inertial uh inertial

639
00:36:41,270 --> 00:36:38,839
sensors the

640
00:36:43,589 --> 00:36:41,280
imu um

641
00:36:46,230 --> 00:36:43,599
our powered flight appears to have been

642
00:36:49,349 --> 00:36:46,240
excellent if my good friend ben toma is

643
00:36:51,510 --> 00:36:49,359
in the house is ben in the house

644
00:36:54,710 --> 00:36:51,520
we landed with um

645
00:36:57,270 --> 00:36:54,720
140 kilograms of

646
00:36:59,270 --> 00:36:57,280
fuel reserves out of a total of 400

647
00:37:00,150 --> 00:36:59,280
kilos that we carried in

648
00:37:01,510 --> 00:37:00,160
and

649
00:37:04,230 --> 00:37:01,520
we're gonna

650
00:37:06,310 --> 00:37:04,240
ben worked quite diligently and

651
00:37:07,670 --> 00:37:06,320
stretching the tanks at my insistence

652
00:37:09,589 --> 00:37:07,680
because i was worried we wouldn't have

653
00:37:13,349 --> 00:37:09,599
enough fuel and so i think i owe ben a

654
00:37:17,910 --> 00:37:14,950
so uh

655
00:37:20,230 --> 00:37:17,920
it looked good in short good and clean

656
00:37:21,190 --> 00:37:20,240
and and it looks at least by my eyeball

657
00:37:25,990 --> 00:37:21,200
that we

658
00:37:30,230 --> 00:37:27,270
beautiful

659
00:37:34,230 --> 00:37:32,230
shinny jardin from boingbong.net and i'm

660
00:37:36,470 --> 00:37:34,240
a stand in for miles o'brien with pbs

661
00:37:39,670 --> 00:37:36,480
newshour tonight what do you find more

662
00:37:44,630 --> 00:37:41,910
i won't tell him that adam okay i think

663
00:37:47,190 --> 00:37:44,640
he heard it what

664
00:37:48,790 --> 00:37:47,200
i have to ask you what kind of file type

665
00:37:50,470 --> 00:37:48,800
can you tell us about the image file

666
00:37:52,470 --> 00:37:50,480
type and compression that was used to

667
00:37:54,310 --> 00:37:52,480
send this very important couple of

668
00:37:57,829 --> 00:37:54,320
thumbnails back from mars yes

669
00:38:00,230 --> 00:37:57,839
unfortunately i absolutely cannot

670
00:38:01,349 --> 00:38:00,240
if justin mackey is in the room or

671
00:38:02,630 --> 00:38:01,359
there's a couple other people on the

672
00:38:04,710 --> 00:38:02,640
team who'd be able to whip that out

673
00:38:06,790 --> 00:38:04,720
quickly but i i don't

674
00:38:08,870 --> 00:38:06,800
couldn't tell you i'm sorry

675
00:38:10,150 --> 00:38:08,880
okay we're going across the aisle over

676
00:38:11,349 --> 00:38:10,160
here and they just wait for the mic

677
00:38:13,510 --> 00:38:11,359
runner

678
00:38:16,630 --> 00:38:13,520
right there thank you

679
00:38:18,630 --> 00:38:16,640
hi sally rail with planetary society and

680
00:38:21,270 --> 00:38:18,640
um this is for adam

681
00:38:22,870 --> 00:38:21,280
uh two very quick questions

682
00:38:28,069 --> 00:38:22,880
well first one's quick are you gonna

683
00:38:33,030 --> 00:38:31,109
it is true that i think the curiosity

684
00:38:35,349 --> 00:38:33,040
is

685
00:38:36,950 --> 00:38:35,359
perhaps the central defining human

686
00:38:39,030 --> 00:38:36,960
attribute

687
00:38:40,870 --> 00:38:39,040
i really do

688
00:38:42,230 --> 00:38:40,880
and i was richard and i were both part

689
00:38:44,150 --> 00:38:42,240
of a group of people who were select

690
00:38:46,710 --> 00:38:44,160
were in the process of helping winnow

691
00:38:48,790 --> 00:38:46,720
down the names of the the school kids

692
00:38:50,550 --> 00:38:48,800
had taken and there was i don't know a

693
00:38:52,550 --> 00:38:50,560
couple hundred that we looked at

694
00:38:55,030 --> 00:38:52,560
and curiosity was one of them

695
00:38:57,510 --> 00:38:55,040
and i was smitten from the moment i saw

696
00:39:00,470 --> 00:38:57,520
that and i'm so happy that the rover is

697
00:39:03,030 --> 00:39:00,480
curiosity okay the next question is a

698
00:39:04,390 --> 00:39:03,040
little bit about 48 hours ago

699
00:39:05,510 --> 00:39:04,400
paul is right there

700
00:39:19,030 --> 00:39:05,520
come on

701
00:39:24,950 --> 00:39:22,710
my daughter's name will not be curiosity

702
00:39:27,430 --> 00:39:24,960
okay a serious question a little more

703
00:39:30,069 --> 00:39:27,440
than 48 hours ago you told me you would

704
00:39:32,790 --> 00:39:30,079
tell me a secret

705
00:39:35,990 --> 00:39:32,800
once curiosity landed

706
00:39:40,150 --> 00:39:36,000
can i have my secret yeah what was this

707
00:39:45,510 --> 00:39:42,069
and to be very truthful i do not recall

708
00:39:50,150 --> 00:39:46,790
i'm going to hold you to this that's

709
00:39:55,910 --> 00:39:52,390
okay i'm looking for the next question

710
00:39:56,870 --> 00:39:55,920
up here a little forward there thank you

711
00:39:59,109 --> 00:39:56,880
thank you

712
00:40:00,069 --> 00:39:59,119
olivier sandy and joyspace.com from

713
00:40:03,510 --> 00:40:00,079
france

714
00:40:05,750 --> 00:40:03,520
so thank you for chem cam and sam gt

715
00:40:10,309 --> 00:40:05,760
which is a french participation

716
00:40:15,990 --> 00:40:13,589
we did a webcast in france uh in french

717
00:40:17,430 --> 00:40:16,000
for people following and i uh i made a

718
00:40:21,670 --> 00:40:17,440
contract with you stream saying oh there

719
00:40:25,510 --> 00:40:22,470
well

720
00:40:27,750 --> 00:40:25,520
40 000. as i said four thousand okay

721
00:40:29,670 --> 00:40:27,760
sorry for that anyway uh there is

722
00:40:31,109 --> 00:40:29,680
international cooperation and curiosity

723
00:40:33,030 --> 00:40:31,119
of course it's an american success for

724
00:40:34,870 --> 00:40:33,040
the landing i would like to know how

725
00:40:36,790 --> 00:40:34,880
this cooperation

726
00:40:38,710 --> 00:40:36,800
goes with the other countries i think

727
00:40:41,030 --> 00:40:38,720
you learn something i mean engineers are

728
00:40:43,510 --> 00:40:41,040
ingenious data is that numbers are

729
00:40:45,270 --> 00:40:43,520
numbers in every country but you do have

730
00:40:47,270 --> 00:40:45,280
your own habits

731
00:40:49,349 --> 00:40:47,280
how did you manage with that was that

732
00:40:52,309 --> 00:40:49,359
fine was your tensions

733
00:40:54,630 --> 00:40:52,319
and registered cultural perhaps the

734
00:40:56,950 --> 00:40:54,640
question is with the other countries yes

735
00:40:58,309 --> 00:40:56,960
yes what did you learn with the others

736
00:41:00,550 --> 00:40:58,319
right i'll let richard answer them i

737
00:41:02,230 --> 00:41:00,560
think that it uh you know in each case

738
00:41:04,390 --> 00:41:02,240
because we were working part of this

739
00:41:06,150 --> 00:41:04,400
with the science teams

740
00:41:07,829 --> 00:41:06,160
we had very good relations with the

741
00:41:10,230 --> 00:41:07,839
other countries that were working on it

742
00:41:12,069 --> 00:41:10,240
in particular the spanish and you know

743
00:41:13,990 --> 00:41:12,079
who built the high gain antenna for us

744
00:41:15,910 --> 00:41:14,000
as well as one of the instruments you

745
00:41:17,430 --> 00:41:15,920
know we had people who engineers on our

746
00:41:18,950 --> 00:41:17,440
side who would who would work closely

747
00:41:21,270 --> 00:41:18,960
with their teams

748
00:41:22,950 --> 00:41:21,280
very very capable people you know

749
00:41:24,790 --> 00:41:22,960
companies and organizations and

750
00:41:25,670 --> 00:41:24,800
personnel working on those efforts over

751
00:41:27,510 --> 00:41:25,680
there

752
00:41:29,510 --> 00:41:27,520
so we certainly had our problems we had

753
00:41:30,950 --> 00:41:29,520
our problems even on the u.s parts of

754
00:41:33,190 --> 00:41:30,960
this i mean this is a challenging

755
00:41:35,030 --> 00:41:33,200
development um and there were there were

756
00:41:36,950 --> 00:41:35,040
challenges on on almost every piece of

757
00:41:38,710 --> 00:41:36,960
the vehicle um so i would you know i

758
00:41:41,430 --> 00:41:38,720
think that my experience with working

759
00:41:43,990 --> 00:41:41,440
with the overseas elements uh was very

760
00:41:45,670 --> 00:41:44,000
good that they're quite capable and i

761
00:41:47,510 --> 00:41:45,680
think that you know hopefully they'll

762
00:41:48,790 --> 00:41:47,520
gain what the expertise they gain on

763
00:41:50,470 --> 00:41:48,800
this project they'll be able to take

764
00:41:53,910 --> 00:41:50,480
that and to use it on their own

765
00:41:58,790 --> 00:41:56,150
okay we're going next over here uh leo

766
00:42:02,309 --> 00:41:58,800
enright from irish television uh the

767
00:42:04,630 --> 00:42:02,319
unmanned space flight uh website has

768
00:42:07,270 --> 00:42:04,640
coordinates for the landing that go down

769
00:42:09,589 --> 00:42:07,280
to something like five decimal points

770
00:42:12,069 --> 00:42:09,599
um i just wanted to confirm with you

771
00:42:14,390 --> 00:42:12,079
that that those those that you do have

772
00:42:16,150 --> 00:42:14,400
them have those sort of coordinates and

773
00:42:18,630 --> 00:42:16,160
am i reading those coordinates correctly

774
00:42:23,190 --> 00:42:18,640
when i see that it looks as though you

775
00:42:25,190 --> 00:42:23,200
landed within 500 meters of the

776
00:42:26,309 --> 00:42:25,200
skirt around the mountain that i mean

777
00:42:28,390 --> 00:42:26,319
you're really

778
00:42:31,349 --> 00:42:28,400
very close to the mountain at the closer

779
00:42:33,109 --> 00:42:31,359
end in the landing ellipse and possibly

780
00:42:36,069 --> 00:42:33,119
within striking distance of the

781
00:42:39,430 --> 00:42:36,079
phyllosilicate trench

782
00:42:41,910 --> 00:42:39,440
i can i can't confirm that

783
00:42:44,790 --> 00:42:42,829
my

784
00:42:47,829 --> 00:42:44,800
estimate

785
00:42:48,870 --> 00:42:47,839
i'm looking for somebody yes

786
00:42:51,670 --> 00:42:48,880
there's somebody in the audience here

787
00:42:54,150 --> 00:42:51,680
who has that in the tip of their noggin

788
00:42:55,829 --> 00:42:54,160
we should have soon that estimate

789
00:42:58,069 --> 00:42:55,839
but i don't have it to five decimal

790
00:42:59,829 --> 00:42:58,079
places we wouldn't report it to that

791
00:43:01,670 --> 00:42:59,839
because we don't we're certain that we

792
00:43:02,950 --> 00:43:01,680
don't know it to that um and i don't

793
00:43:04,630 --> 00:43:02,960
know what the space

794
00:43:06,790 --> 00:43:04,640
unmanned spaceflight.com

795
00:43:08,630 --> 00:43:06,800
uh estimate is yeah there's a team of

796
00:43:10,630 --> 00:43:08,640
people that are working on localization

797
00:43:13,990 --> 00:43:10,640
including what information we got

798
00:43:16,230 --> 00:43:14,000
on the way down you know nav nav filter

799
00:43:18,390 --> 00:43:16,240
probably taking a picture

800
00:43:19,670 --> 00:43:18,400
looking at the picture uh and trying to

801
00:43:21,589 --> 00:43:19,680
figure out from there where we are i

802
00:43:22,950 --> 00:43:21,599
would imagine by tomorrow

803
00:43:25,109 --> 00:43:22,960
tomorrow's press conferences they should

804
00:43:27,270 --> 00:43:25,119
have a better idea where it came down

805
00:43:29,750 --> 00:43:27,280
within a few hundred meters at least

806
00:43:34,150 --> 00:43:31,109
okay the next question is over on this

807
00:43:36,470 --> 00:43:34,160
side um i'm chief evan from tvps taiwan

808
00:43:39,109 --> 00:43:36,480
we also have a live event in taiwan this

809
00:43:41,589 --> 00:43:39,119
is actually a question from our audience

810
00:43:44,390 --> 00:43:41,599
which is uh i think she's like around 10

811
00:43:46,390 --> 00:43:44,400
years old girl and she wants to know if

812
00:43:47,829 --> 00:43:46,400
it is possible if there is any

813
00:43:50,710 --> 00:43:47,839
opportunity

814
00:43:53,910 --> 00:43:50,720
that jpl would consider to open up the

815
00:43:55,990 --> 00:43:53,920
opportunity for students to operate

816
00:43:57,349 --> 00:43:56,000
curiosity

817
00:43:58,309 --> 00:43:57,359
in mars

818
00:44:00,870 --> 00:43:58,319
and then

819
00:44:02,150 --> 00:44:00,880
especially students from overseas i want

820
00:44:12,950 --> 00:44:02,160
you to know

821
00:44:15,750 --> 00:44:13,910
you know i got to tell you in all

822
00:44:21,990 --> 00:44:15,760
honesty first we have to let them wait

823
00:44:26,630 --> 00:44:24,870
okay we have a question um henry you're

824
00:44:28,710 --> 00:44:26,640
next

825
00:44:30,550 --> 00:44:28,720
henry bartman with astrobiology magazine

826
00:44:33,670 --> 00:44:30,560
can you tell us

827
00:44:35,750 --> 00:44:33,680
uh at what time curiosity

828
00:44:39,190 --> 00:44:35,760
touchdown earth received time and at

829
00:44:41,510 --> 00:44:39,200
what time the first image came back

830
00:44:44,069 --> 00:44:41,520
i can tell you the first of those is 10

831
00:44:57,829 --> 00:44:44,079
39 pm

832
00:45:02,790 --> 00:45:00,150
go here in the center of the road

833
00:45:04,790 --> 00:45:02,800
um director from scholastic um

834
00:45:07,430 --> 00:45:04,800
[Music]

835
00:45:09,430 --> 00:45:07,440
um both charles and uh john said that

836
00:45:10,870 --> 00:45:09,440
this is very much of an inspiration to

837
00:45:12,870 --> 00:45:10,880
young people can you tell me what

838
00:45:15,349 --> 00:45:12,880
inspired you when you're growing up what

839
00:45:16,230 --> 00:45:15,359
did what made you decide to join nasa

840
00:45:18,950 --> 00:45:16,240
and do

841
00:45:20,230 --> 00:45:18,960
all of this amazing work

842
00:45:22,710 --> 00:45:20,240
let me start

843
00:45:25,430 --> 00:45:22,720
i was inspired by the first astronauts

844
00:45:27,829 --> 00:45:25,440
the gemini program the apollo program

845
00:45:29,349 --> 00:45:27,839
and specifically here we are still in

846
00:45:30,870 --> 00:45:29,359
the heart of summer

847
00:45:33,349 --> 00:45:30,880
and i remember being brought into the

848
00:45:35,750 --> 00:45:33,359
mess hall at summer camp

849
00:45:37,349 --> 00:45:35,760
to look at a small black and white tv

850
00:45:39,990 --> 00:45:37,359
along with a couple hundred other boys

851
00:45:42,309 --> 00:45:40,000
it was a boys camp in central wisconsin

852
00:45:44,829 --> 00:45:42,319
to see neil armstrong and buzz aldrin

853
00:45:47,910 --> 00:45:44,839
land on the moon july 21st

854
00:45:49,190 --> 00:45:47,920
1969. and that stuck with me and

855
00:45:51,109 --> 00:45:49,200
inspired me

856
00:45:52,870 --> 00:45:51,119
to go on to become a physicist a

857
00:45:54,230 --> 00:45:52,880
scientist to study math and science

858
00:45:56,309 --> 00:45:54,240
throughout school

859
00:45:58,950 --> 00:45:56,319
eventually to apply to the astronaut

860
00:46:01,190 --> 00:45:58,960
corps to go to space

861
00:46:03,349 --> 00:46:01,200
and i hope

862
00:46:05,589 --> 00:46:03,359
uh and it was a dream of mine for this

863
00:46:07,990 --> 00:46:05,599
evening and i think we've achieved that

864
00:46:09,990 --> 00:46:08,000
uh that for kids today

865
00:46:11,750 --> 00:46:10,000
actually for everyone today that this

866
00:46:13,910 --> 00:46:11,760
landing of curiosity on the surface of

867
00:46:15,510 --> 00:46:13,920
mars will be an inspiration that will

868
00:46:17,750 --> 00:46:15,520
lead people to think about the great

869
00:46:22,309 --> 00:46:17,760
science that's ahead of us

870
00:46:22,319 --> 00:46:26,470
someone else

871
00:46:31,349 --> 00:46:29,510
oh sorry i was rob is making gestures at

872
00:46:33,349 --> 00:46:31,359
me out there in the audience so i'm not

873
00:46:35,990 --> 00:46:33,359
sure what i'm trying to interpret

874
00:46:38,630 --> 00:46:36,000
i mean i think to think as so the the

875
00:46:41,270 --> 00:46:38,640
kinds of i didn't have a specific

876
00:46:43,109 --> 00:46:41,280
activity or thing

877
00:46:45,670 --> 00:46:43,119
like john said that inspired me but so

878
00:46:47,910 --> 00:46:45,680
much as being able to do problem solving

879
00:46:50,790 --> 00:46:47,920
right and and the the thing that we do

880
00:46:52,470 --> 00:46:50,800
here and nasa does and jpl does is we

881
00:46:55,109 --> 00:46:52,480
solve problems and we solve problems

882
00:46:57,349 --> 00:46:55,119
that involved uh you know obviously very

883
00:46:59,589 --> 00:46:57,359
state-of-the-art activities but also

884
00:47:01,670 --> 00:46:59,599
things that require large teams of

885
00:47:04,309 --> 00:47:01,680
people working together in a really

886
00:47:05,750 --> 00:47:04,319
intimate way that is really different i

887
00:47:07,910 --> 00:47:05,760
think than almost any other human

888
00:47:09,510 --> 00:47:07,920
endeavor it's amazing to solve a problem

889
00:47:11,589 --> 00:47:09,520
as complicated as landing on the surface

890
00:47:14,069 --> 00:47:11,599
of mars where you're utterly dependent

891
00:47:16,230 --> 00:47:14,079
on you know a team of 100 or 200 or a

892
00:47:18,069 --> 00:47:16,240
thousand other people to do their parts

893
00:47:19,589 --> 00:47:18,079
and to do it to solve their problems and

894
00:47:21,589 --> 00:47:19,599
have all those problems work together

895
00:47:24,870 --> 00:47:21,599
and it's just the scale of that endeavor

896
00:47:26,630 --> 00:47:24,880
that problem solving that is what got me

897
00:47:29,349 --> 00:47:26,640
attracted to working for for nasa and

898
00:47:32,069 --> 00:47:29,359
for jpl and and uh i think that's if i

899
00:47:34,150 --> 00:47:32,079
were to talk to my kids or to kids you

900
00:47:35,589 --> 00:47:34,160
know that to go in this this field

901
00:47:38,870 --> 00:47:35,599
that's the kind of thing that nasa and

902
00:47:39,990 --> 00:47:38,880
jpl does um and and it's really if

903
00:47:42,470 --> 00:47:40,000
you're interested in that sort of

904
00:47:46,150 --> 00:47:42,480
problem or in that sort of uh activity

905
00:47:53,990 --> 00:47:49,270
okay go ahead um raphael jaffe with

906
00:47:59,990 --> 00:47:56,309
what am i really seeing

907
00:48:02,069 --> 00:48:00,000
in that photo that is behind you

908
00:48:05,589 --> 00:48:02,079
and i heard some

909
00:48:08,470 --> 00:48:05,599
something about a second photo

910
00:48:09,829 --> 00:48:08,480
shadow of the curiosity

911
00:48:12,950 --> 00:48:09,839
being seen

912
00:48:16,309 --> 00:48:12,960
and wheels uh or a wheel of the

913
00:48:18,710 --> 00:48:16,319
curiosity so could you lead me through

914
00:48:24,710 --> 00:48:18,720
that photo

915
00:48:27,990 --> 00:48:26,470
um well i can just tell you i mean yes

916
00:48:30,150 --> 00:48:28,000
what you're seeing in the first picture

917
00:48:32,470 --> 00:48:30,160
that you said that was the shadow of of

918
00:48:34,309 --> 00:48:32,480
curiosity um there in the in the view

919
00:48:36,150 --> 00:48:34,319
these are the rear has cam views so

920
00:48:37,990 --> 00:48:36,160
we're looking out the back of the rover

921
00:48:39,990 --> 00:48:38,000
uh i don't think we got any of the front

922
00:48:41,190 --> 00:48:40,000
has cams that's front oh is it front

923
00:48:43,030 --> 00:48:41,200
okay

924
00:48:44,790 --> 00:48:43,040
thank you it's front there we go the

925
00:48:46,470 --> 00:48:44,800
other one is is the rear and that is the

926
00:48:48,710 --> 00:48:46,480
wheel you see in the lower corner there

927
00:48:51,430 --> 00:48:48,720
we do expect to get more pictures back

928
00:48:53,750 --> 00:48:51,440
in this uh upcoming odyssey pass which

929
00:48:55,829 --> 00:48:53,760
hopefully will be in about 25 minutes

930
00:48:57,190 --> 00:48:55,839
here so we'll get yet more pictures uh

931
00:48:59,190 --> 00:48:57,200
and these images were actually through

932
00:49:00,549 --> 00:48:59,200
the cover and actually if you go back to

933
00:49:02,950 --> 00:49:00,559
the other one

934
00:49:04,549 --> 00:49:02,960
uh for a second

935
00:49:06,630 --> 00:49:04,559
can you switch to the other picture you

936
00:49:08,870 --> 00:49:06,640
can see those little speckles around the

937
00:49:11,270 --> 00:49:08,880
the the black little dots or speckles

938
00:49:13,030 --> 00:49:11,280
around the outside uh which is probably

939
00:49:15,190 --> 00:49:13,040
dust kicked up you know during the

940
00:49:17,430 --> 00:49:15,200
landing event that stuck onto the covers

941
00:49:18,390 --> 00:49:17,440
and so it's good that we have

942
00:49:22,069 --> 00:49:18,400
covers

943
00:49:24,069 --> 00:49:22,079
and those those uh

944
00:49:25,670 --> 00:49:24,079
hopefully those uh those specs of dust

945
00:49:33,670 --> 00:49:25,680
will will not be visible in the next set

946
00:49:36,950 --> 00:49:35,270
the new yorker um

947
00:49:39,030 --> 00:49:36,960
i may be imagining this but the one time

948
00:49:40,790 --> 00:49:39,040
during the landing then the temperature

949
00:49:44,150 --> 00:49:40,800
seemed to drop in the room

950
00:49:46,390 --> 00:49:44,160
was when adam asked for od 278 and they

951
00:49:47,510 --> 00:49:46,400
said no we only have 277. what's

952
00:49:50,069 --> 00:49:47,520
happening or was it anything of

953
00:49:53,109 --> 00:49:50,079
significance

954
00:49:56,230 --> 00:49:54,630
we are

955
00:49:58,470 --> 00:49:56,240
as we're coming in

956
00:50:00,870 --> 00:49:58,480
the navigators are continuing to make

957
00:50:03,270 --> 00:50:00,880
od's orbital determination where the

958
00:50:05,510 --> 00:50:03,280
spacecraft is and updating and they all

959
00:50:08,710 --> 00:50:05,520
have numbers an estimate an estimate an

960
00:50:11,190 --> 00:50:08,720
estimate and and they get better as as

961
00:50:13,990 --> 00:50:11,200
mars grabs us and the and the pull of

962
00:50:21,109 --> 00:50:15,510
reduce some of the

963
00:50:24,390 --> 00:50:23,270
while that's going on while edl is

964
00:50:26,150 --> 00:50:24,400
happening

965
00:50:27,030 --> 00:50:26,160
in the edl war room in a different

966
00:50:28,150 --> 00:50:27,040
building

967
00:50:29,910 --> 00:50:28,160
you were seeing it on some of the

968
00:50:31,910 --> 00:50:29,920
cameras

969
00:50:35,670 --> 00:50:31,920
the flight dynamics team

970
00:50:37,990 --> 00:50:35,680
is running simulations to the ground

971
00:50:41,430 --> 00:50:38,000
with our simulation tool

972
00:50:42,390 --> 00:50:41,440
based on those updated ods

973
00:50:45,030 --> 00:50:42,400
and so

974
00:50:47,589 --> 00:50:45,040
i had seen that oda 228

975
00:50:49,190 --> 00:50:47,599
come up and i was asking if they had

976
00:50:50,549 --> 00:50:49,200
that because i had had it and they

977
00:50:51,910 --> 00:50:50,559
hadn't they didn't have it over there

978
00:50:56,710 --> 00:50:51,920
yet and they hadn't started that was

979
00:50:56,720 --> 00:51:02,390
let me get a new question over here

980
00:51:06,630 --> 00:51:04,390
uh ian thompson from the register um

981
00:51:08,710 --> 00:51:06,640
question for john grotzinger you now get

982
00:51:10,069 --> 00:51:08,720
the keys to this and you can um sort of

983
00:51:11,750 --> 00:51:10,079
get it moving along

984
00:51:13,750 --> 00:51:11,760
what's the first stages that you'll go

985
00:51:15,589 --> 00:51:13,760
through in terms of in terms of getting

986
00:51:18,069 --> 00:51:15,599
curiosity out there and potentially how

987
00:51:20,950 --> 00:51:18,079
long could it survive on mars beyond the

988
00:51:23,589 --> 00:51:20,960
two-year span

989
00:51:25,589 --> 00:51:23,599
um i'll take a swipe at the first one

990
00:51:28,630 --> 00:51:25,599
uh you know we just want to get going

991
00:51:29,829 --> 00:51:28,640
first and and check out all of the

992
00:51:32,790 --> 00:51:29,839
engineering

993
00:51:35,030 --> 00:51:32,800
systems and the science instruments

994
00:51:36,870 --> 00:51:35,040
and this is a very very very complex

995
00:51:39,750 --> 00:51:36,880
spacecraft compared to what we've done

996
00:51:42,470 --> 00:51:39,760
before and and so because of that we'll

997
00:51:45,030 --> 00:51:42,480
go through this long checkout period

998
00:51:46,230 --> 00:51:45,040
called the commissioning activity period

999
00:51:49,349 --> 00:51:46,240
and

1000
00:51:51,030 --> 00:51:49,359
this very carefully

1001
00:51:53,349 --> 00:51:51,040
and we're going to make sure that we're

1002
00:51:56,150 --> 00:51:53,359
firing on all cylinders before we blaze

1003
00:52:00,069 --> 00:51:56,160
out across the the planes there

1004
00:52:01,589 --> 00:52:00,079
but nested within those uh initial

1005
00:52:05,030 --> 00:52:01,599
tests are going to be science

1006
00:52:07,750 --> 00:52:05,040
observations and and so we have a plan

1007
00:52:09,829 --> 00:52:07,760
uh to begin working through those as we

1008
00:52:11,190 --> 00:52:09,839
test out the instruments and in the next

1009
00:52:13,349 --> 00:52:11,200
few days

1010
00:52:14,790 --> 00:52:13,359
you guys will be able to see

1011
00:52:16,870 --> 00:52:14,800
some of the images you'll see the

1012
00:52:19,349 --> 00:52:16,880
results of the instrument health and

1013
00:52:20,870 --> 00:52:19,359
aliveness checks and how we do

1014
00:52:24,230 --> 00:52:20,880
but the best way to think about this

1015
00:52:27,030 --> 00:52:24,240
mission is on the order of days weeks

1016
00:52:29,829 --> 00:52:27,040
months and and years and and we can

1017
00:52:32,390 --> 00:52:29,839
loosely bound things i think we expect

1018
00:52:34,549 --> 00:52:32,400
to spend a couple of weeks checking

1019
00:52:36,630 --> 00:52:34,559
things out and then maybe taking the

1020
00:52:38,470 --> 00:52:36,640
first drive a short distance to some

1021
00:52:40,390 --> 00:52:38,480
place where we'll go through the second

1022
00:52:42,950 --> 00:52:40,400
phase of commissioning

1023
00:52:45,030 --> 00:52:42,960
and then in a matter of months we we

1024
00:52:46,950 --> 00:52:45,040
hope to have used all of the instruments

1025
00:52:48,549 --> 00:52:46,960
and including the sam and the chemin

1026
00:52:49,990 --> 00:52:48,559
instruments and done some scooping and

1027
00:52:52,470 --> 00:52:50,000
drilling

1028
00:52:54,549 --> 00:52:52,480
and you know possibly within a year or

1029
00:52:56,150 --> 00:52:54,559
so we we could be at the base of mount

1030
00:52:57,589 --> 00:52:56,160
sharp because the place we landed on

1031
00:52:58,950 --> 00:52:57,599
looks pretty darn interesting and we

1032
00:53:01,430 --> 00:52:58,960
just don't want to rush out of there

1033
00:53:04,390 --> 00:53:01,440
without having studied it real well

1034
00:53:05,910 --> 00:53:04,400
so uh it's the missions about patience

1035
00:53:08,150 --> 00:53:05,920
and and uh

1036
00:53:10,309 --> 00:53:08,160
and uh and and checking things out

1037
00:53:11,910 --> 00:53:10,319
carefully

1038
00:53:13,670 --> 00:53:11,920
john and i have a bet as to whether or

1039
00:53:15,109 --> 00:53:13,680
not how long it will take us to get to

1040
00:53:16,790 --> 00:53:15,119
mount sharp because

1041
00:53:17,990 --> 00:53:16,800
my version of the surface mission is

1042
00:53:19,990 --> 00:53:18,000
that it's like going on a family

1043
00:53:22,150 --> 00:53:20,000
vacation and driving from here to

1044
00:53:24,069 --> 00:53:22,160
chicago and except for your family he's

1045
00:53:27,030 --> 00:53:24,079
got 400 scientists who want to stop and

1046
00:53:32,710 --> 00:53:29,990
every fossilized whatever they can find

1047
00:53:34,470 --> 00:53:32,720
and uh and so so he says it's not going

1048
00:53:35,750 --> 00:53:34,480
to take that long and i i don't believe

1049
00:53:37,910 --> 00:53:35,760
him

1050
00:53:39,109 --> 00:53:37,920
richard's going to win yeah

1051
00:53:43,589 --> 00:53:39,119
john's going to search for the biggest

1052
00:53:46,390 --> 00:53:44,870
in terms of the second part of your

1053
00:53:48,470 --> 00:53:46,400
question there is no inherent

1054
00:53:50,150 --> 00:53:48,480
consumables on the spacecraft

1055
00:53:52,470 --> 00:53:50,160
we don't have gas or something we run

1056
00:53:54,549 --> 00:53:52,480
out of inherently

1057
00:53:55,589 --> 00:53:54,559
we test the the life-limiting

1058
00:53:57,349 --> 00:53:55,599
characteristics tend to be the

1059
00:53:58,950 --> 00:53:57,359
mechanisms the motors and those things

1060
00:54:03,030 --> 00:53:58,960
they tend to be outside in the cold so

1061
00:54:06,710 --> 00:54:05,190
highs and lows and we test those for

1062
00:54:09,829 --> 00:54:06,720
three times life

1063
00:54:11,190 --> 00:54:09,839
and and we don't test them to failure so

1064
00:54:12,230 --> 00:54:11,200
the nominal mission for this is two

1065
00:54:14,549 --> 00:54:12,240
years

1066
00:54:16,950 --> 00:54:14,559
but i think if it lasts twice that i

1067
00:54:18,470 --> 00:54:16,960
don't think anyone would be shocked

1068
00:54:19,910 --> 00:54:18,480
and that's the first time anyone's ever

1069
00:54:22,309 --> 00:54:19,920
gotten me to say anything more than two

1070
00:54:26,549 --> 00:54:25,190
so i think it i think you know uh john's

1071
00:54:29,430 --> 00:54:26,559
right we've got

1072
00:54:31,430 --> 00:54:29,440
um uh we've got a long mission ahead of

1073
00:54:33,030 --> 00:54:31,440
us and and because of that and the

1074
00:54:34,790 --> 00:54:33,040
capabilities are over we have this

1075
00:54:36,309 --> 00:54:34,800
possibility for just monumental science

1076
00:54:38,789 --> 00:54:36,319
accomplishments and the target we've

1077
00:54:40,789 --> 00:54:38,799
gone to i mean this mount sharp is just

1078
00:54:43,270 --> 00:54:40,799
you know this whole this whole story of

1079
00:54:45,270 --> 00:54:43,280
mars and and and we just can't explore

1080
00:54:47,190 --> 00:54:45,280
and explore explore across that

1081
00:54:49,349 --> 00:54:47,200
the other side of that is as i've said

1082
00:54:51,990 --> 00:54:49,359
to the team and and i'll repeat it to

1083
00:54:53,030 --> 00:54:52,000
the press here is that we're in no hurry

1084
00:54:54,870 --> 00:54:53,040
okay

1085
00:54:56,470 --> 00:54:54,880
we have now have as i said to the team

1086
00:54:59,270 --> 00:54:56,480
on 1032

1087
00:55:01,510 --> 00:54:59,280
tonight we would have a priceless asset

1088
00:55:02,390 --> 00:55:01,520
a priceless national asset

1089
00:55:03,910 --> 00:55:02,400
okay

1090
00:55:07,589 --> 00:55:03,920
and we are not going to pardon the

1091
00:55:09,750 --> 00:55:07,599
french screw it up okay and therefore we

1092
00:55:10,870 --> 00:55:09,760
will take our time to understand its

1093
00:55:12,390 --> 00:55:10,880
condition

1094
00:55:14,069 --> 00:55:12,400
and understand if there's anything that

1095
00:55:16,069 --> 00:55:14,079
happened during landing that we haven't

1096
00:55:17,510 --> 00:55:16,079
uncovered yet we will take our time to

1097
00:55:19,030 --> 00:55:17,520
make sure that we understand how to

1098
00:55:22,150 --> 00:55:19,040
operate in this new and challenging

1099
00:55:24,309 --> 00:55:22,160
environment and then we will with slow

1100
00:55:25,829 --> 00:55:24,319
deliberate methodical pace

1101
00:55:27,750 --> 00:55:25,839
we'll begin the science explorations

1102
00:55:30,230 --> 00:55:27,760
that the science team wants to take

1103
00:55:31,750 --> 00:55:30,240
so um so be patient with us please

1104
00:55:33,670 --> 00:55:31,760
because we will be patient with the with

1105
00:55:35,510 --> 00:55:33,680
curiosity

1106
00:55:36,950 --> 00:55:35,520
just realize that this is the second

1107
00:55:39,589 --> 00:55:36,960
rover we have operating on the surface

1108
00:55:41,190 --> 00:55:39,599
of mars at the same time that's pretty

1109
00:55:42,549 --> 00:55:41,200
spectacular to have to have

1110
00:55:45,270 --> 00:55:42,559
opportunities still there eight years

1111
00:55:47,190 --> 00:55:45,280
later and curiosity both doing its thing

1112
00:55:49,030 --> 00:55:47,200
continuing some roving continuous roving

1113
00:55:52,340 --> 00:55:49,040
presence on the surface of mars for in

1114
00:56:01,990 --> 00:55:52,350
excess of eight years now

1115
00:56:03,190 --> 00:56:02,000
[Applause]

1116
00:56:05,190 --> 00:56:03,200
right with that we're going to end

1117
00:56:07,670 --> 00:56:05,200
tonight's news conference we know that

1118
00:56:10,069 --> 00:56:07,680
there is a um next odyssey pass coming

1119
00:56:11,510 --> 00:56:10,079
up at about 12 40 and um we're going to

1120
00:56:13,190 --> 00:56:11,520
let you all take your time get back up

1121
00:56:15,190 --> 00:56:13,200
there and get back to work and i want to

1122
00:56:16,710 --> 00:56:15,200
thank everyone for joining us

1123
00:56:18,789 --> 00:56:16,720
stay tuned for our next commentary

1124
00:56:20,870 --> 00:56:18,799
session that we will begin at around 12

1125
00:56:23,750 --> 00:56:20,880
30 for that overpass of the odyssey

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spacecraft and then follow the mission

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msl for more updates join us tomorrow