1 00:00:34,417 --> 00:00:35,251 >>> WE EXPLORE MARS, THE HISTORY 2 00:00:35,251 --> 00:00:37,153 OF THE PLANET, THE POSSIBILITY 3 00:00:37,153 --> 00:00:37,954 OF LIFE. 4 00:00:37,954 --> 00:00:39,689 >> WE LEARN SOMETHING AND DESIGN 5 00:00:39,689 --> 00:00:42,559 AN EXHIBITION BASED ON WHAT YOU 6 00:00:42,559 --> 00:00:42,892 LEARN. 7 00:00:42,892 --> 00:00:44,861 >> ALLOWS US TO GO BACK IN TIME 8 00:00:44,861 --> 00:00:46,396 ON MARS. 9 00:00:46,396 --> 00:00:48,064 >> THE FIRST PICTURE WILL COVER 10 00:00:48,064 --> 00:00:51,801 AN AREA OF 176 MILES. 11 00:00:51,801 --> 00:00:54,003 >> MARINER 4 BEGAN TRANSMITTING 12 00:00:54,003 --> 00:00:54,437 BACK IMAGES. 13 00:00:54,437 --> 00:00:56,806 >> THE FIRST PHOTOGRAPH A HUMAN 14 00:00:56,806 --> 00:00:58,341 BEING HAS EVER SEEN ON THE 15 00:00:58,341 --> 00:00:59,776 SURFACE OF ANOTHER PLANET. 16 00:00:59,776 --> 00:01:03,279 >> ON AUGUST 20, 1975 THE FIRST 17 00:01:03,279 --> 00:01:04,714 VIKING SPACE SHIP WAS LAUNCHED. 18 00:01:04,714 --> 00:01:06,116 >> YOU ARE SEEING SOMETHING THAT 19 00:01:06,116 --> 00:01:09,419 NO OTHER HUMAN HAS EVER SEEN 20 00:01:09,419 --> 00:01:09,986 BEFORE. 21 00:01:09,986 --> 00:01:11,254 >> FORMER SEAS AND MOUNTAINS. 22 00:01:11,254 --> 00:01:17,861 >> HUGE CANYONS. 23 00:01:17,861 --> 00:01:21,131 >> THAT SENSE OF WONDER AND 24 00:01:21,131 --> 00:01:22,398 ACHIEVEMENT AND WORKING TOWARD 25 00:01:22,398 --> 00:01:22,999 YOUR GOAL. 26 00:01:22,999 --> 00:01:25,835 >> WE CAN DO AND WE WILL DO. 27 00:01:25,835 --> 00:01:28,805 >> AND LIFTOFF! 28 00:01:28,805 --> 00:01:35,879 [CHEERING] 29 00:01:35,879 --> 00:01:41,284 >> WE HAVE ORBITED. 30 00:01:41,284 --> 00:01:42,919 >> TOGETHER WE GET IT. 31 00:01:42,919 --> 00:01:44,521 THE ATTITUDE IS TOGETHER WE CAN 32 00:01:44,521 --> 00:01:46,589 DO IT. 33 00:01:46,589 --> 00:01:48,158 >> THE FUTURE IS WHAT YOU MAKE 34 00:01:48,158 --> 00:01:48,792 OUT OF IT. 35 00:01:48,792 --> 00:01:52,295 YOU CAN MAKE IT REAL. 36 00:01:52,295 --> 00:01:55,799 >> HERE WE ARE WITH MARS 37 00:01:55,799 --> 00:01:56,833 PERSEVERANCE 51 YEARS LATER 38 00:01:56,833 --> 00:01:59,402 GETTING READY TO BE THE FIRST 39 00:01:59,402 --> 00:02:01,104 EVER MARS RETURN MISSION. 40 00:02:01,104 --> 00:02:02,705 >> EVENTUALLY WE CAN BRING THE 41 00:02:02,705 --> 00:02:03,740 SAMPLES BACK TO EARTH AND 42 00:02:03,740 --> 00:02:06,543 DETERMINE FOR THE VERY FIRST 43 00:02:06,543 --> 00:02:11,881 TIME DID LIFE EXIST ON MARS? 44 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:19,255 >> HELLO AND WELCOME TO KENNEDY 45 00:02:19,255 --> 00:02:20,490 SPACE CENTER. 46 00:02:20,490 --> 00:02:22,025 THANK YOU FOR JOINING US FOR 47 00:02:22,025 --> 00:02:25,261 THIS PRE-LAUNCH PRESS 48 00:02:25,261 --> 00:02:25,662 CONFERENCE. 49 00:02:25,662 --> 00:02:30,533 MOMENTS AGO THE LAUNCH READINESS 50 00:02:30,533 --> 00:02:31,901 REVIEW CONCLUDED FOR THE MISSION 51 00:02:31,901 --> 00:02:35,138 THAT WILL CARRY THE RECOVERY AND 52 00:02:35,138 --> 00:02:36,272 HELICOPTER TO THE RED PLANET. 53 00:02:36,272 --> 00:02:38,141 WE ARE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THE 54 00:02:38,141 --> 00:02:40,844 NEW ERA IN MARS EXPLORATION. 55 00:02:40,844 --> 00:02:43,213 YOU CAN CATCH THE LAUNCH HERE ON 56 00:02:43,213 --> 00:02:46,482 NASA TELEVISION STARTING AT 7:00 57 00:02:46,482 --> 00:02:49,619 A.M. AND THE LAUNCH WILL BE AT 58 00:02:49,619 --> 00:02:50,587 7:50 A.M. 59 00:02:50,587 --> 00:02:52,522 TO LEARN MORE WE ARE JOINED BY 60 00:02:52,522 --> 00:02:55,892 A GREAT PANEL TO TELL US ABOUT 61 00:02:55,892 --> 00:02:57,760 MARS 2020 AND FUTURE PLANS TO 62 00:02:57,760 --> 00:02:58,094 MARS. 63 00:02:58,094 --> 00:03:01,130 FIRST WE HAVE NASA ADMINISTRATOR 64 00:03:01,130 --> 00:03:04,701 JIM BRIDENSTINE. 65 00:03:04,701 --> 00:03:07,136 THE ASSOCIATE ADMINISTRATOR FOR 66 00:03:07,136 --> 00:03:08,471 THE MISSION DIRECTORATE. 67 00:03:08,471 --> 00:03:11,107 MATT WALLACE DEPUTY PROGRAM 68 00:03:11,107 --> 00:03:13,843 MANAGER FOR THE JET PROPULSION 69 00:03:13,843 --> 00:03:14,177 LAB. 70 00:03:14,177 --> 00:03:17,013 LAUNCH DIRECTOR FOR THE NASA 71 00:03:17,013 --> 00:03:18,648 LAUNCH SERVICE PROGRAM. 72 00:03:18,648 --> 00:03:20,950 THE PRESIDENT AND CEO OF THE 73 00:03:20,950 --> 00:03:26,623 UNITE THE LAUNCH ALLIANCE AND 74 00:03:26,623 --> 00:03:28,491 46th SPACE WING WEATHER 75 00:03:28,491 --> 00:03:28,992 OFFICER. 76 00:03:28,992 --> 00:03:30,727 WE'LL TAKE QUESTIONS FROM THE 77 00:03:30,727 --> 00:03:33,830 MEDIA JOINING US VIRTUALLY ON 78 00:03:33,830 --> 00:03:36,633 THE PHONE FIRST. 79 00:03:36,633 --> 00:03:38,201 WE'LL TAKE QUESTIONS FROM SOCIAL 80 00:03:38,201 --> 00:03:42,438 MEDIA WITH THE #COUNTDOWNTOMARS. 81 00:03:42,438 --> 00:03:44,941 LET'S START WITH JIM 82 00:03:44,941 --> 00:03:45,341 BRIDENSTINE. 83 00:03:45,341 --> 00:03:46,376 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. 84 00:03:46,376 --> 00:03:48,578 I JUST WANT TO SAY THE LAUNCH 85 00:03:48,578 --> 00:03:50,313 READINESS REVIEW IS COMPLETE AND 86 00:03:50,313 --> 00:03:52,215 WE ARE, INDEED, GO FOR LAUNCH. 87 00:03:52,215 --> 00:03:55,351 I WANT TO THANK OUR UL A TEAM 88 00:03:55,351 --> 00:03:57,754 MEATS AND JPL TEAMMATES AS WELL. 89 00:03:57,754 --> 00:04:01,157 THIS HAS BEEN AN AMAZING 90 00:04:01,157 --> 00:04:01,491 TEAMEST. 91 00:04:01,491 --> 00:04:03,559 I REMEMBER WHEN I FIRST CAME TO 92 00:04:03,559 --> 00:04:06,195 THE AGENCY THOMAS SAID WE HAVE 93 00:04:06,195 --> 00:04:08,264 A REUFPBLGT IT IS MARS 2020. 94 00:04:08,264 --> 00:04:09,799 I SAID WHAT'S THE RISK? 95 00:04:09,799 --> 00:04:12,201 WE MIGHT NOT GO IN 2020. 96 00:04:12,201 --> 00:04:14,938 AND HERE WE ARE A NUMBER OF 97 00:04:14,938 --> 00:04:17,540 YEARS LATER, BUT WE ARE, IN 98 00:04:17,540 --> 00:04:19,309 FACT,GOING TO LAUNCH WHAT WE 99 00:04:19,309 --> 00:04:22,145 CALL MARS PERSEVERANCE IN THE 100 00:04:22,145 --> 00:04:22,578 YEAR 2020. 101 00:04:22,578 --> 00:04:24,881 I THINK THE NAME IS PERFECTLY 102 00:04:24,881 --> 00:04:25,415 APPROPRIATE. 103 00:04:25,415 --> 00:04:28,051 A YOUNG MAN IN VIRGINIA NAMED 104 00:04:28,051 --> 00:04:31,187 ALEX MATHER A SEVENTH GRADER IS 105 00:04:31,187 --> 00:04:33,356 THE PERSON WHO NAMED IT. 106 00:04:33,356 --> 00:04:35,925 WE ARE IN EXTRAORDINARY TIMES 107 00:04:35,925 --> 00:04:38,127 RIGHT NOW WITH THE CORONAVIRUS 108 00:04:38,127 --> 00:04:38,494 PANDEMIC. 109 00:04:38,494 --> 00:04:40,863 AND YET WE HAVE, IN FACT, 110 00:04:40,863 --> 00:04:42,932 PERSEVERED AND PROTECTED THIS 111 00:04:42,932 --> 00:04:45,068 MISSION BECAUSE IT IS SO 112 00:04:45,068 --> 00:04:45,435 IMPORTANT. 113 00:04:45,435 --> 00:04:46,869 WE DECLARE THIS MISSION TO BE 114 00:04:46,869 --> 00:04:47,270 ESSENTIAL. 115 00:04:47,270 --> 00:04:48,404 THERE ARE A NUMBER OF REASONS 116 00:04:48,404 --> 00:04:48,738 WHY. 117 00:04:48,738 --> 00:04:50,540 I'LL JUST GIVE YOU A FEW OF 118 00:04:50,540 --> 00:04:50,873 THEM. 119 00:04:50,873 --> 00:04:51,741 SOME OF THE REASONS THAT EXCITE 120 00:04:51,741 --> 00:04:52,909 ME THE MOST. 121 00:04:52,909 --> 00:04:55,011 FIRST OF ALL, THE PRESIDENT GAVE 122 00:04:55,011 --> 00:04:57,313 US AN OBJECTIVE TO GO TO MARS 123 00:04:57,313 --> 00:04:59,415 WITH HUMANS TO PLANT AN AMERICAN 124 00:04:59,415 --> 00:05:00,483 FLAG ON MARS. 125 00:05:00,483 --> 00:05:01,851 IN ORDER TO DO THAT WE HAVE TO 126 00:05:01,851 --> 00:05:04,320 BE ABLE TO SUSTAIN HUMAN LIFE ON 127 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:04,620 MARS. 128 00:05:04,620 --> 00:05:07,290 THERE IS A MISSION ON 129 00:05:07,290 --> 00:05:10,126 PERSEVERANCE CALLED MOXIE, 130 00:05:10,126 --> 00:05:11,294 A TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATOR. 131 00:05:11,294 --> 00:05:13,896 HOW DO WE USE THE CARBON DIOXIDE 132 00:05:13,896 --> 00:05:16,199 ATMOSPHERE OF MARS AND CREATE 133 00:05:16,199 --> 00:05:17,934 PURE OXYGEN FOR LIFE SUPPORT? 134 00:05:17,934 --> 00:05:19,402 THAT'S A REALLY EXCITING MISSION 135 00:05:19,402 --> 00:05:21,971 THAT IS A RECURSOR TO AN 136 00:05:21,971 --> 00:05:24,007 EVENTUAL HUMAN MISSION TO MARS. 137 00:05:24,007 --> 00:05:25,475 THERE IS SO MUCH MORE. 138 00:05:25,475 --> 00:05:28,177 WHEN WE THINK ABOUT THE MARS 139 00:05:28,177 --> 00:05:28,945 PERSEVERANCE RECOVERY FOR THE 140 00:05:28,945 --> 00:05:31,781 FIRST TIME EVER -- ROVER FOR 141 00:05:31,781 --> 00:05:33,649 FIRST TIME EVER WE'LL FLY 142 00:05:33,649 --> 00:05:35,752 A HELICOPTER ON ANOTHER PLAN ET. 143 00:05:35,752 --> 00:05:38,888 WE CALL IT ENGENUTE. 144 00:05:38,888 --> 00:05:40,690 IT WILL BE A TECH DEMONSTRATOR 145 00:05:40,690 --> 00:05:41,958 FOR THIS PARTICULAR MISSION BUT 146 00:05:41,958 --> 00:05:44,060 IN THE FUTURE COULD TRANSFORM 147 00:05:44,060 --> 00:05:46,696 HOW WE DO PLANETARY SCIENCE ON 148 00:05:46,696 --> 00:05:48,398 THE OTHER WORLDS. 149 00:05:48,398 --> 00:05:50,633 AND EVENTUALLY BE A SCOUT TO 150 00:05:50,633 --> 00:05:52,268 FIGURE OUT WHERE EXACTLY DO WE 151 00:05:52,268 --> 00:05:55,471 NEED TO SEND OUR ROBOT? 152 00:05:55,471 --> 00:05:57,740 I THINK THE OTHER THING THAT IS 153 00:05:57,740 --> 00:05:59,609 IMPORTANT ABOUT THIS MISSION IT 154 00:05:59,609 --> 00:06:01,444 IS THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY 155 00:06:01,444 --> 00:06:03,546 WHEN NASA HAS DEDICATED 156 00:06:03,546 --> 00:06:06,449 A MISSION TO WHAT WE CALL 157 00:06:06,449 --> 00:06:06,949 ASTRO-BIOLOGY. 158 00:06:06,949 --> 00:06:11,320 THE SEARCH FOR LIFE MAYBE NOW OR 159 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:12,789 ANCIENT LIFE ON ANOTHER WORLD. 160 00:06:12,789 --> 00:06:15,691 WHEN WE GO TO THE CRATER, 161 00:06:15,691 --> 00:06:20,730 OBVIOUSLY A BIG CRATER ON MARS 162 00:06:20,730 --> 00:06:23,800 AND HAD A LAKE BED AND RIVER 163 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:25,201 THAT FLOWED INTO IT AND THAT 164 00:06:25,201 --> 00:06:26,736 DELTA IS AS PLACE WE BELIEVE 165 00:06:26,736 --> 00:06:30,106 THERE COULD BE WE DON'T KNOW, 166 00:06:30,106 --> 00:06:32,408 COULD HAVE BEEN AT ONE POINT IN 167 00:06:32,408 --> 00:06:33,843 TIME LIFE. 168 00:06:33,843 --> 00:06:36,579 WE KNOW MARS HAD A VERY ACTIVE 169 00:06:36,579 --> 00:06:38,548 ATMOSPHERE AND HYDRO SPHERE AND 170 00:06:38,548 --> 00:06:41,184 WAS PROTECTED FROM THE RADIATION 171 00:06:41,184 --> 00:06:43,252 OF DEEP SPACE AT ONE TIME. 172 00:06:43,252 --> 00:06:45,521 AT ONE TIME MARS WAS HABITABLE. 173 00:06:45,521 --> 00:06:48,057 WE KNOW THAT BECAUSE OF PAST 174 00:06:48,057 --> 00:06:48,991 MISSIONS SPIRIT AND OPPORTUNITY. 175 00:06:48,991 --> 00:06:50,693 NOW THAT WE KNOW WHAT THE 176 00:06:50,693 --> 00:06:52,328 HISTORY WAS MARS WAS WE CAN SAY 177 00:06:52,328 --> 00:06:53,729 OKAY, MAYBE THERE WAS LIFE 178 00:06:53,729 --> 00:06:55,298 THERE, LET'S GO FIND OUT IF 179 00:06:55,298 --> 00:06:56,466 THERE WAS LIFE ON MARS. 180 00:06:56,466 --> 00:06:58,101 IN FACT, THE OTHER EXCITING 181 00:06:58,101 --> 00:07:01,737 THING IS WE ARE GOING TO CACHE 182 00:07:01,737 --> 00:07:03,806 SAMPLES ON THE SURFACE OF 183 00:07:03,806 --> 00:07:07,510 ANOTHER WORLD FOR A FUTURENITION 184 00:07:07,510 --> 00:07:08,744 2026 TO BRING THEM BACK TO 185 00:07:08,744 --> 00:07:09,045 EARTH. 186 00:07:09,045 --> 00:07:10,379 THAT WILL BE THE FIRST TIME IN 187 00:07:10,379 --> 00:07:12,548 HISTORY WE HAVE DONE A MARS 188 00:07:12,548 --> 00:07:13,216 RETURN MISSION. 189 00:07:13,216 --> 00:07:15,051 IT IS THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY 190 00:07:15,051 --> 00:07:18,154 WE HAVE DONE A RETURN TPHREUGZ 191 00:07:18,154 --> 00:07:19,288 ANY PLANET. 192 00:07:19,288 --> 00:07:21,090 THESE ARE EXCITING TIMES. 193 00:07:21,090 --> 00:07:21,858 VERY IMPORTANT MISSION FOR THE 194 00:07:21,858 --> 00:07:23,926 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND, OF 195 00:07:23,926 --> 00:07:26,028 COURSE, A VERY IMPORTANT MISSION 196 00:07:26,028 --> 00:07:27,130 FOR THE WORLD W. THAT I WILL 197 00:07:27,130 --> 00:07:30,566 TURN IT OVER TO THE ASSOCIATE 198 00:07:30,566 --> 00:07:32,468 ADMINISTRATOR OF THE SCIENCE 199 00:07:32,468 --> 00:07:34,770 MISSION DIRECT RATE AT NASA WHO 200 00:07:34,770 --> 00:07:36,906 HAS DONE AMAZING WORK HELPING US 201 00:07:36,906 --> 00:07:38,474 GET TO WHERE WE ARE TODAY AND 202 00:07:38,474 --> 00:07:40,243 SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS HOW 203 00:07:40,243 --> 00:07:43,846 UNITING THIS MISSION ACTUALLY 204 00:07:43,846 --> 00:07:44,113 IS. 205 00:07:44,113 --> 00:07:45,982 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. 206 00:07:45,982 --> 00:07:49,085 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMITMENT TO 207 00:07:49,085 --> 00:07:51,053 SUCCESS, WITHOUT WHICH WE 208 00:07:51,053 --> 00:07:52,588 WOULDN'T BE HERE TODAY. 209 00:07:52,588 --> 00:07:53,489 I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT. 210 00:07:53,489 --> 00:07:55,124 I JUST COULDN'T BE MORE HAPPY TO 211 00:07:55,124 --> 00:07:58,294 BE HERE TODAY AND HAVE THIS 212 00:07:58,294 --> 00:08:00,363 AMAZING MISSION ON TOP OF 213 00:08:00,363 --> 00:08:01,464 A ROCKET READY TO GO. 214 00:08:01,464 --> 00:08:03,432 FROM THIS LAUNCH READINESS 215 00:08:03,432 --> 00:08:05,935 REVIEW KNOW THAT ALL THE ISSUES 216 00:08:05,935 --> 00:08:08,971 ARE ADDRESSED AND WE ARE IN FACT 217 00:08:08,971 --> 00:08:09,505 READY NOW. 218 00:08:09,505 --> 00:08:11,941 WE ARE JUST COUNTING DOWN. 219 00:08:11,941 --> 00:08:13,709 WE ARE JUST CELEBRATING WITH THE 220 00:08:13,709 --> 00:08:14,143 TEAM. 221 00:08:14,143 --> 00:08:15,611 YOU ALREADY MENTIONED WHY WE 222 00:08:15,611 --> 00:08:17,313 WANT TO GO TO MARS AND I'M NOT 223 00:08:17,313 --> 00:08:18,347 GOING TO REPEAT IT. 224 00:08:18,347 --> 00:08:20,116 FOR ME, THE MOST EXCITING PART 225 00:08:20,116 --> 00:08:23,319 IS TO REALLY GO LAND IN THIS 226 00:08:23,319 --> 00:08:25,621 RIVER DELTA THAT WE THINK HAS SO 227 00:08:25,621 --> 00:08:29,559 MANY PROMISING LANDSCAPES AND 228 00:08:29,559 --> 00:08:31,961 ROCKS THAT WE WILL NOT ONLY SEE 229 00:08:31,961 --> 00:08:36,065 IMAGES AND MEASURE *PBLTS OF AND 230 00:08:36,065 --> 00:08:43,706 -- MEASUREMENTS AND RETURNSAMP. 231 00:08:43,706 --> 00:08:45,408 WE ARE EXCITED TO LEARN ABOUT 232 00:08:45,408 --> 00:08:46,842 THE CLIMATE OF MARS. 233 00:08:46,842 --> 00:08:51,314 THE WEATHER THERE WITH UNPRES 234 00:08:51,314 --> 00:08:52,048 UNPRECEDENTED WEATHER 235 00:08:52,048 --> 00:08:53,182 INFORMATION THERE THAT TEACHES 236 00:08:53,182 --> 00:08:55,051 US ABOUT THAT. 237 00:08:55,051 --> 00:08:56,485 AND NEEDLESS TO SAY, WE ARE 238 00:08:56,485 --> 00:08:59,822 GOING TO MAKE AMAZING SURPRISING 239 00:08:59,822 --> 00:09:02,258 DISCOVERIES IN A WAY THAT IT 240 00:09:02,258 --> 00:09:03,192 ALWAYS HAPPENS. 241 00:09:03,192 --> 00:09:04,660 THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THAT 242 00:09:04,660 --> 00:09:05,761 HAPPENS ARE THE THINGS WE DID 243 00:09:05,761 --> 00:09:06,796 NOT PLAN. 244 00:09:06,796 --> 00:09:10,132 THOSE ARE DISCOVERIES THAT ARE 245 00:09:10,132 --> 00:09:11,500 REWRITING SCHOOL BOOKS ALL OVER 246 00:09:11,500 --> 00:09:12,668 THE WORLD. 247 00:09:12,668 --> 00:09:14,637 THERE ARE TWO THINGS THAT REALLY 248 00:09:14,637 --> 00:09:16,072 ARE IMPORTANT TO ME TODAY I WANT 249 00:09:16,072 --> 00:09:21,344 TO FOCUS ON, THE FIRST IS PIERCE 250 00:09:21,344 --> 00:09:21,777 PERSEVERANCE. 251 00:09:21,777 --> 00:09:23,379 SAID HOW IMPORTANT THE NAME S. 252 00:09:23,379 --> 00:09:24,914 MANY PEOPLE THINK IT IS ABOUT 253 00:09:24,914 --> 00:09:25,748 SOMETHING HARD. 254 00:09:25,748 --> 00:09:28,251 IT IS SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL. 255 00:09:28,251 --> 00:09:30,353 IT IS TOGETHER WITH EXPLORATION 256 00:09:30,353 --> 00:09:32,888 AND HOPE AND VISION TIS WHAT 257 00:09:32,888 --> 00:09:34,523 ALLOWS US TO ACHIEVE THESE 258 00:09:34,523 --> 00:09:36,225 AMAZING GOALS. 259 00:09:36,225 --> 00:09:40,062 THIS SUBMISSION FULL OF 260 00:09:40,062 --> 00:09:40,563 PERSEVERANCE. 261 00:09:40,563 --> 00:09:41,964 PERSEVERANCE EARLY ON OF 262 00:09:41,964 --> 00:09:44,000 BRINGING THIS AMAZING IDEA TO 263 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:47,103 BEAR AND DESIGNING THIS EXCITING 264 00:09:47,103 --> 00:09:47,503 ROVER. 265 00:09:47,503 --> 00:09:50,506 TOGETHER WITH INTERNATIONAL 266 00:09:50,506 --> 00:09:52,541 PARTNERS THAT PERSEVERED 267 00:09:52,541 --> 00:09:53,542 THEMSELVES DEVELOPING THE 268 00:09:53,542 --> 00:09:54,877 INSTRUMENTS AND SENDING THEM 269 00:09:54,877 --> 00:09:55,711 OVER. 270 00:09:55,711 --> 00:09:57,713 IT IS GOING THROUGH THE 271 00:09:57,713 --> 00:09:59,148 ADVERSITY THAT WE ALWAYS 272 00:09:59,148 --> 00:10:01,317 ENCOUNTER WHEN IT COMES TO 273 00:10:01,317 --> 00:10:03,486 COMPLEX, YOU KNOW, EXPLORATION, 274 00:10:03,486 --> 00:10:05,254 BUT ALSO IN THIS CASE OVER AND 275 00:10:05,254 --> 00:10:07,857 ABOVE BECAUSE OF THE TREMENDOUS 276 00:10:07,857 --> 00:10:09,859 DIFFICULTIES IN THE SAMPLE 277 00:10:09,859 --> 00:10:12,595 RETURN TECHNOLOGY THAT WAS 278 00:10:12,595 --> 00:10:52,768 INVENTED IN 279 00:10:52,768 --> 00:10:55,404 WHO ARE NO LONGER WITH US, THEY 280 00:10:55,404 --> 00:10:57,740 ARE PART OF THIS IMPORTANT 281 00:10:57,740 --> 00:10:59,141 EXPLORATION. 282 00:10:59,141 --> 00:11:07,650 WE ARE GOING TOGETHER AS 283 00:11:07,650 --> 00:11:08,150 A WORLD. 284 00:11:08,150 --> 00:11:10,786 A LITTLE COUNTRY OVER THERE IN 285 00:11:10,786 --> 00:11:11,120 EUROPE. 286 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:12,655 AND SHOW THE FIRST IMAGE. 287 00:11:12,655 --> 00:11:14,390 THIS IS IN THE BACKGROUND THE 288 00:11:14,390 --> 00:11:14,824 MATTER HORN. 289 00:11:14,824 --> 00:11:17,226 YOU HAVE SEEN IT FROM CHOCOLATE 290 00:11:17,226 --> 00:11:17,893 BARS, PERHAPS. 291 00:11:17,893 --> 00:11:20,062 YOU KNOW IT IS ONE OF THE MOST 292 00:11:20,062 --> 00:11:23,132 AMAZING MOUNTAINS, ALMOST 15,000 293 00:11:23,132 --> 00:11:23,966 FEET HIGH. 294 00:11:23,966 --> 00:11:26,736 WHAT YOU SEE IN THE FOREFRONT IS 295 00:11:26,736 --> 00:11:30,406 A LIGHT SHOW, ACTUALLY REALLY ON 296 00:11:30,406 --> 00:11:34,844 TO THE MATTERHORN WITH MARS 297 00:11:34,844 --> 00:11:35,177 IMAGES. 298 00:11:35,177 --> 00:11:37,079 THIS COULD BE ON ANOTHER PLANET 299 00:11:37,079 --> 00:11:37,346 TOO. 300 00:11:37,346 --> 00:11:40,616 THIS IS IN SWITZERLAND AND AT 301 00:11:40,616 --> 00:11:43,386 9,000 FEET HIGH WHERE THE CREW 302 00:11:43,386 --> 00:11:43,886 IS RIGHT NOW. 303 00:11:43,886 --> 00:11:45,521 HERE IS WHAT IS EXCITING RIGHT 304 00:11:45,521 --> 00:11:47,757 NOW, EVERY NIGHT UNTIL THE 305 00:11:47,757 --> 00:11:50,059 15th OF AUGUST AND NEXT 306 00:11:50,059 --> 00:11:52,361 IMAGE PLEASE, THE CREW IS GOING 307 00:11:52,361 --> 00:11:54,597 TO PROJECT IMAGES SUCH AS THIS 308 00:11:54,597 --> 00:11:56,599 ONE ON TO THE MATTER HORN. 309 00:11:56,599 --> 00:11:59,235 IMAGES OF COMING TOGETHER AS 310 00:11:59,235 --> 00:12:03,739 A WORLD AND PERSEVERING AND 311 00:12:03,739 --> 00:12:06,108 EXPLORING OUR NEIGHBORING PLANET 312 00:12:06,108 --> 00:12:08,043 TOGETHER AND BEING EXPLORERS 313 00:12:08,043 --> 00:12:16,585 TOGETHER AND PERSEVERING. 314 00:12:16,585 --> 00:12:20,890 THIS IS NOT FAKE, THAT IS WHAT 315 00:12:20,890 --> 00:12:22,324 HAPPENED LAST NIGHT AND THE NEXT 316 00:12:22,324 --> 00:12:24,927 NIGHT AND THE NEXT FEW NIGHTS. 317 00:12:24,927 --> 00:12:27,229 I WANT TO THANK THE ARTIST AND 318 00:12:27,229 --> 00:12:32,301 EVENT DESIGNER WHO DID THAT. 319 00:12:32,301 --> 00:12:34,904 AND THE OFFICIAL IN CHARGE WHO 320 00:12:34,904 --> 00:12:35,304 ENABLEDNA. 321 00:12:35,304 --> 00:12:37,506 A LOT OF PEOPLE HAD TO AGREE TO 322 00:12:37,506 --> 00:12:48,017 THAT MOMENT OF COMING TOGETHER. 323 00:12:48,017 --> 00:12:50,419 WITH THAT, I AM GOING TO TURN IT 324 00:12:50,419 --> 00:12:51,487 OVER TO MATT. 325 00:12:51,487 --> 00:12:54,457 I JUST WANT TO TELL YOU HOW MUCH 326 00:12:54,457 --> 00:12:56,058 I APPRECIATE MATT AND HIS WORK 327 00:12:56,058 --> 00:12:58,527 AND THE WORK OF HIS ENTIRE TEAM. 328 00:12:58,527 --> 00:13:01,530 MATT AND I GOT TO KNOW EACH 329 00:13:01,530 --> 00:13:04,733 OTHER A LOT BECAUSE WE HAD TO 330 00:13:04,733 --> 00:13:05,401 PERSEVERE TOGETHER. 331 00:13:05,401 --> 00:13:06,936 >> THANK YOU, THOMAS. 332 00:13:06,936 --> 00:13:10,973 I WILL NOT SPEAK GERMAN, BUT I'M 333 00:13:10,973 --> 00:13:11,740 PRETTY EXCITED. 334 00:13:11,740 --> 00:13:14,910 THIS IS THE FIFTH MARS ROVER 335 00:13:14,910 --> 00:13:16,879 MISSION I GOT A CHANCE TO WORK 336 00:13:16,879 --> 00:13:17,980 ON AND THIS IS REALLY SPECIAL 337 00:13:17,980 --> 00:13:19,415 FOR A LOT OF REASONS. 338 00:13:19,415 --> 00:13:21,050 SOME OF WHICH YOU HAVE ALREADY 339 00:13:21,050 --> 00:13:22,952 HEARD B. WE ARE DOING 340 00:13:22,952 --> 00:13:24,119 TRANSFORMATIVE SCIENCE. 341 00:13:24,119 --> 00:13:25,421 FOR THE FIRST TIME WE ARE 342 00:13:25,421 --> 00:13:28,591 LOOKING FOR SIGNS OF LIFE ON 343 00:13:28,591 --> 00:13:29,658 ANOTHER PLANET. 344 00:13:29,658 --> 00:13:31,327 FOR THE FIRST TIME WE'LL COLLECT 345 00:13:31,327 --> 00:13:33,496 SAMPLES THAT WILL BE PART OF, WE 346 00:13:33,496 --> 00:13:35,264 HOPE, THE FIRST SAMPLE RETURN 347 00:13:35,264 --> 00:13:36,532 FROM ANOTHER PLANET. 348 00:13:36,532 --> 00:13:38,534 THERE ARE A LOT OF OTHER FIRST 349 00:13:38,534 --> 00:13:40,236 ALONG THE WAY. 350 00:13:40,236 --> 00:13:42,204 ADMINISTRATOR MENTIONED OUR 351 00:13:42,204 --> 00:13:46,842 FIRST POWERED ARIEL CAPABILITY 352 00:13:46,842 --> 00:14:00,356 WITH THE ENGINE YOUITY AND AVOID 353 00:14:00,356 --> 00:14:01,824 HAZARDSAS WE LAND IN THE CRATER. 354 00:14:01,824 --> 00:14:05,728 THAT IS A TECHNOLOGY IN THE 355 00:14:05,728 --> 00:14:08,697 FUTURE AND ROBOTICS AND HUMAN 356 00:14:08,697 --> 00:14:10,099 EXPLORATION SYSTEMS AND THAT'S 357 00:14:10,099 --> 00:14:10,533 EXCITING. 358 00:14:10,533 --> 00:14:13,335 WE ARE CARRYING MICRO PHONES AND 359 00:14:13,335 --> 00:14:15,037 FOR THE FIRST TIME WE'LL HEAR 360 00:14:15,037 --> 00:14:16,772 THE SOUNDS OF THE SPACECRAFT 361 00:14:16,772 --> 00:14:19,475 LANDING ON ANOTHER PLANET AND 362 00:14:19,475 --> 00:14:20,442 THE ROVER DRILLING IN THE ROCKS 363 00:14:20,442 --> 00:14:23,612 AND ROLLING OVER THE SURFACE OF 364 00:14:23,612 --> 00:14:23,913 MARS. 365 00:14:23,913 --> 00:14:26,482 AND, YOU KNOW, THAT'S PRETTY 366 00:14:26,482 --> 00:14:26,849 EXCITING. 367 00:14:26,849 --> 00:14:28,317 I'LL MENTION ONE MORE NEAR AND 368 00:14:28,317 --> 00:14:29,952 DEAR TO MY HEART. 369 00:14:29,952 --> 00:14:32,254 FOR THE FIRST TIME WE'LL HAVE AN 370 00:14:32,254 --> 00:14:33,989 OPPORTUNITY TO SEE ANOTHER 371 00:14:33,989 --> 00:14:36,191 SPACECRAFT, SEE OUR SPACECRAFT 372 00:14:36,191 --> 00:14:37,993 LAND ON ANOTHER PLANET. 373 00:14:37,993 --> 00:14:40,563 WE HAVE COMMERCIAL RUGGEDIZED 374 00:14:40,563 --> 00:14:43,198 CAMERAS WE HAVE ALL OVER THE 375 00:14:43,198 --> 00:14:44,934 SPACE CRAFTED AND THEY WILL GET 376 00:14:44,934 --> 00:14:46,535 HIGH DEFINITION VIDEO WE'LL 377 00:14:46,535 --> 00:14:48,771 BRING BACK AFTER WE LAND ON THE 378 00:14:48,771 --> 00:14:50,606 SURFACE OF THE LANDING ACTIVITY 379 00:14:50,606 --> 00:14:52,474 FROM THE INFLATION OF THE 380 00:14:52,474 --> 00:14:53,409 PARACHUTE TO THE TOUCH DOWN OF 381 00:14:53,409 --> 00:14:53,876 THE RECOVERY. 382 00:14:53,876 --> 00:14:57,279 THAT WILL BE VERY EXCITING 383 00:14:57,279 --> 00:14:58,380 FOOTAGE. 384 00:14:58,380 --> 00:15:00,182 THE WHOLE MISSION IS VERY 385 00:15:00,182 --> 00:15:00,983 EXCITING FOR ME. 386 00:15:00,983 --> 00:15:03,852 IF WE BRING UP THE FIRST GRAPHIC 387 00:15:03,852 --> 00:15:07,890 FROM A QUICK HISTORICAL 388 00:15:07,890 --> 00:15:09,258 PERSPECTIVE WE BEGAN TO LOOK FOR 389 00:15:09,258 --> 00:15:12,461 WAYS TO LEVERAGE THE POWERFUL 390 00:15:12,461 --> 00:15:14,263 SKY CRANE DELIVERY SYSTEM THAT 391 00:15:14,263 --> 00:16:07,883 WE 392 00:16:07,883 --> 00:16:09,051 OTHER CHALLENGES IN OUR 393 00:16:09,051 --> 00:16:11,387 DEVELOPMENT AS WELL. 394 00:16:11,387 --> 00:16:14,056 LATE IN THE GAME WE WERE ASKED 395 00:16:14,056 --> 00:16:16,525 TO ACCOMMODATE THIS LITTLE THING 396 00:16:16,525 --> 00:16:18,460 CALLED MARS HELICOPTER. 397 00:16:18,460 --> 00:16:22,564 AS YOU CAN SEE IT WAS WELL AFTER 398 00:16:22,564 --> 00:16:25,067 MOST WERE ASSIGNED TO THE 399 00:16:25,067 --> 00:16:25,401 PROJECT. 400 00:16:25,401 --> 00:16:27,436 WE HAD TO DO A MAGIC TRICK TO 401 00:16:27,436 --> 00:16:30,305 GET THAT ON THE ROVER. 402 00:16:30,305 --> 00:16:31,840 PULLED A BIT OF A RABBIT OUT OF 403 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:33,609 THE HAT, BUT I GUESS IT WAS 404 00:16:33,609 --> 00:16:34,943 FATE, BECAUSE WE MANAGED TO GET 405 00:16:34,943 --> 00:16:35,544 IT DONE. 406 00:16:35,544 --> 00:16:36,845 THE HELICOPTER TEAM DELIVERED 407 00:16:36,845 --> 00:16:39,248 THEIR SYSTEM AND IT'S SITTING UP 408 00:16:39,248 --> 00:16:41,684 WITH THE PERSEVERANCE ROVER ON 409 00:16:41,684 --> 00:16:43,819 TOP OF THE ATLAS 5 ROCKET 410 00:16:43,819 --> 00:16:45,320 GETTING READY TO GO TO MARS WITH 411 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:45,587 US. 412 00:16:45,587 --> 00:16:47,089 YOU ALL KNOW THE LAUNCH IS 413 00:16:47,089 --> 00:16:50,592 COMING UP AND, OF COURSE, ABOUT 414 00:16:50,592 --> 00:16:52,561 A SIX AND A HALF MONTH CRUISE TO 415 00:16:52,561 --> 00:16:54,063 MARS AND WE'LL LAND IN THE 416 00:16:54,063 --> 00:16:58,133 MIDDLE OF FEBRUARY 2021 AT THE 417 00:16:58,133 --> 00:16:58,467 CRATER. 418 00:16:58,467 --> 00:17:02,604 IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT GRAPHIC, 419 00:17:02,604 --> 00:17:02,938 PLEASE. 420 00:17:02,938 --> 00:17:03,739 THE IMPORTANT PART. 421 00:17:03,739 --> 00:17:05,574 THIS IS WHERE I TALK ABOUT THE 422 00:17:05,574 --> 00:17:05,874 TEAM. 423 00:17:05,874 --> 00:17:07,710 THIS IS JUST A SMALL FRACTION OF 424 00:17:07,710 --> 00:17:09,111 THE TEAM, BELIEVE IT OR NOT. 425 00:17:09,111 --> 00:17:12,581 THIS IS JUST THE JPL TEAM AND 426 00:17:12,581 --> 00:17:13,882 A FRACTION OF THE MORE THAN 427 00:17:13,882 --> 00:17:15,651 2,000 PEOPLE OVER THE COURSE OF 428 00:17:15,651 --> 00:17:16,852 THE MISSION DEVELOPMENT THAT 429 00:17:16,852 --> 00:17:20,389 WORKED ON THE PROJECT AT JPL. 430 00:17:20,389 --> 00:17:23,959 OUR TEAM DIDN'T STOP AT JPL. 431 00:17:23,959 --> 00:17:26,895 EVERY NASA CENTER PARTICIPATED 432 00:17:26,895 --> 00:17:27,930 IN ONE FORM OR ANOTHER. 433 00:17:27,930 --> 00:17:31,600 IT WAS A CROSS-AGENCY EFFORT AND 434 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:33,736 SOMETHING WE ARE EXTREMELY 435 00:17:33,736 --> 00:17:34,737 APPRECIATIVE OF ALL THE SUPPORT 436 00:17:34,737 --> 00:17:35,804 WE GOT. 437 00:17:35,804 --> 00:17:37,506 IT DIDN'T STOP THERE. 438 00:17:37,506 --> 00:17:40,776 THOMAS MENTIONED WE HAVE THREE 439 00:17:40,776 --> 00:17:41,844 INSTRUMENTS FROM EUROPE, ONE 440 00:17:41,844 --> 00:17:43,812 FROM FRANCE, ONE FROM SPAIN, ONE 441 00:17:43,812 --> 00:17:46,582 FROM NORWAY AND A VERY LARGE 442 00:17:46,582 --> 00:17:47,116 SCIENCE TEAM. 443 00:17:47,116 --> 00:17:50,619 I THINK IT'S MORE THAN 250 444 00:17:50,619 --> 00:17:51,820 SCIENTISTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD 445 00:17:51,820 --> 00:17:54,690 WHICH ARE PARTICIPATING IN THIS 446 00:17:54,690 --> 00:17:56,959 PROJECT AS WELL. 447 00:17:56,959 --> 00:17:59,361 IF YOU BRING UP THE NEXT 448 00:17:59,361 --> 00:18:00,362 GRAPHIC, I THINK WE HAVE 449 00:18:00,362 --> 00:18:01,797 A PICTURE OF THE SPACECRAFT. 450 00:18:01,797 --> 00:18:03,632 I LIKE IT BECAUSE IT GIVES YOU 451 00:18:03,632 --> 00:18:06,268 A SENSE OF THE COMPLEXITY OF THE 452 00:18:06,268 --> 00:18:06,602 SYSTEM. 453 00:18:06,602 --> 00:18:07,870 YOU SEE THE CREW STAGE ON TOP. 454 00:18:07,870 --> 00:18:09,438 THE ROVER IS HARD TO SEE, YOU 455 00:18:09,438 --> 00:18:10,672 CAN SEE A WHEEL THERE. 456 00:18:10,672 --> 00:18:13,809 THE HELICOPTER IS MOUNTED 457 00:18:13,809 --> 00:18:15,410 UNDERNEATH THE BODY OF THE 458 00:18:15,410 --> 00:18:15,778 ROVER. 459 00:18:15,778 --> 00:18:19,081 THEY ARE NESTLED UP INTO THE 460 00:18:19,081 --> 00:18:21,150 UPPER PORTION OF THE ENTRY 461 00:18:21,150 --> 00:18:21,517 CAPSULE. 462 00:18:21,517 --> 00:18:23,285 WE ARE ABOUT TO BRING THE HEAT 463 00:18:23,285 --> 00:18:26,722 SHIELD UP TO ENCAPSULATE THE 464 00:18:26,722 --> 00:18:28,023 ENTIRE SPACECRAFT BEFORE GOING 465 00:18:28,023 --> 00:18:31,660 INTO THE INTEGRATIVE FLOW OF THE 466 00:18:31,660 --> 00:18:33,495 LAUNCH VEHICLE A FEW WEEKS AGO. 467 00:18:33,495 --> 00:18:34,930 YOU CAN'T BUILD SOMETHING THIS 468 00:18:34,930 --> 00:18:36,231 COMPLEX WITHOUT A LOT OF HELP 469 00:18:36,231 --> 00:18:37,766 FROM INDUSTRY PARTNERS AND THEY 470 00:18:37,766 --> 00:18:40,302 STEPPED UP BIG TIME. 471 00:18:40,302 --> 00:18:43,138 WE BUILT FLIGHT HARDWARE IN 44 472 00:18:43,138 --> 00:18:45,107 OUT OF THE 50 STATE IN THE 473 00:18:45,107 --> 00:18:45,974 COUNTRY. 474 00:18:45,974 --> 00:18:48,811 MORE THAN 550 DIFFERENT CITIES 475 00:18:48,811 --> 00:18:51,780 AND TOWNS AND COMMUNITIES. 476 00:18:51,780 --> 00:18:54,082 NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE IN THIS 477 00:18:54,082 --> 00:18:55,918 COUNTRY, YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO 478 00:18:55,918 --> 00:18:57,252 VERY FAR PROBABLY TO FIND 479 00:18:57,252 --> 00:18:58,787 SOMEBODY WHO HAS BEEN PART OF 480 00:18:58,787 --> 00:19:02,224 THIS MISSION. 481 00:19:02,224 --> 00:19:05,828 IT'S A TREMENDOUS TEAM EFFORT. 482 00:19:05,828 --> 00:19:11,133 YOU KNOW, WE WORK WITH CUTTING 483 00:19:11,133 --> 00:19:12,401 EDGE TECHNOLOGY AND WHEN WE DO 484 00:19:12,401 --> 00:19:16,438 THAT WE EXPECT TO BE CHALLENGED. 485 00:19:16,438 --> 00:19:18,574 AND AS THOMAS AND THE 486 00:19:18,574 --> 00:19:21,043 ADMINISTRATOR HAVE MENTIONED OUR 487 00:19:21,043 --> 00:19:22,611 FUNDAMENTAL JOB IS TO EXPLORE 488 00:19:22,611 --> 00:19:23,579 NEW PLACES. 489 00:19:23,579 --> 00:19:27,416 PLACES WE HAVEN'T BEEN, ANSWER 490 00:19:27,416 --> 00:19:28,584 QUESTIONS WE DON'T KNOW THE 491 00:19:28,584 --> 00:19:30,586 ANSWER TO. 492 00:19:30,586 --> 00:19:33,455 SOMETIMES GREAT QUESTIONS WE 493 00:19:33,455 --> 00:19:35,090 DIDN'T KNOW WE NEEDED TO ASK. 494 00:19:35,090 --> 00:19:37,059 YOU EXPECT NEW PROBLEMS AND 495 00:19:37,059 --> 00:19:39,795 ISSUES ALONG THE WAY. 496 00:19:39,795 --> 00:19:41,763 BUT REALLY, NOTHING PREPARED US 497 00:19:41,763 --> 00:19:43,866 FOR WHAT WE HAD TO DEAL WITH IN 498 00:19:43,866 --> 00:19:46,668 THE MIDDLE OF MARCH AS THE 499 00:19:46,668 --> 00:19:47,569 PANDEMIC STRUCK. 500 00:19:47,569 --> 00:19:50,572 NOT JUST OUR TEAM BUT OBVIOUSLY 501 00:19:50,572 --> 00:19:52,441 COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY 502 00:19:52,441 --> 00:19:54,509 AND THE WORLD. 503 00:19:54,509 --> 00:19:56,078 WE REALLY AT THAT POINT OF THE 504 00:19:56,078 --> 00:19:57,946 MISSION WERE IN OUR FINAL 505 00:19:57,946 --> 00:19:58,780 ASSEMBLY ACTIVITIES. 506 00:19:58,780 --> 00:20:01,783 IT IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT THE 507 00:20:01,783 --> 00:20:04,553 TEAM DO THAT ASSEMBLY CORRECTLY 508 00:20:04,553 --> 00:20:07,556 THAT THEY DO IT WITHOUT MAKING 509 00:20:07,556 --> 00:20:08,190 MISTAKES OR DAMAGING THE 510 00:20:08,190 --> 00:20:08,557 HARDWARE. 511 00:20:08,557 --> 00:20:10,492 THERE IS NO SAFETY NET AT THAT 512 00:20:10,492 --> 00:20:10,792 POINT. 513 00:20:10,792 --> 00:20:14,062 WE ARE WORKING WITH VERY LIMITED 514 00:20:14,062 --> 00:20:18,166 SCHEDULE EVERY DAY, EVERY SHIFT, 515 00:20:18,166 --> 00:20:20,435 EVERY HOUR IS SOMETHING WE ARE 516 00:20:20,435 --> 00:20:22,037 SCRUTINIZED TO MAKE SURE WE'LL 517 00:20:22,037 --> 00:20:22,905 STAY ON TRACK. 518 00:20:22,905 --> 00:20:25,440 WE HAVE A 20-DAY PLANETARY 519 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:25,874 LAUNCH WINDOW. 520 00:20:25,874 --> 00:20:27,276 IF WE MISS IT WE ARE GOING TO 521 00:20:27,276 --> 00:20:30,078 PUSH OUT BY A COUPLE YEARS. 522 00:20:30,078 --> 00:20:33,682 AND SO, YOU KNOW, JUST HAVING 523 00:20:33,682 --> 00:20:36,218 THE CORONAVIRUS ISSUE AT THAT 524 00:20:36,218 --> 00:20:37,886 POINT IN TIME WAS VERY 525 00:20:37,886 --> 00:20:40,389 CHALLENGING FOR US. 526 00:20:40,389 --> 00:20:43,592 AND, OF COURSE, NO MATTER HOW 527 00:20:43,592 --> 00:20:46,495 MANY HARDSHIPS WE WERE FACING, 528 00:20:46,495 --> 00:20:48,463 THERE WAS A COMMUNITY OUT THERE, 529 00:20:48,463 --> 00:20:50,465 FIRST RESPONDER, NURSES, 530 00:20:50,465 --> 00:20:52,601 DOCTORS, MEDICAL COMMUNITY THAT 531 00:20:52,601 --> 00:20:57,873 WERE REALLY FACING 532 00:20:57,873 --> 00:20:59,007 LIFE-AND-DEATH SITUATIONS AT THE 533 00:20:59,007 --> 00:21:00,142 SAME TIME. 534 00:21:00,142 --> 00:21:02,511 AND I ASKED THE TEAM A COUPLE 535 00:21:02,511 --> 00:21:04,813 MONTHS AGO TO DO SOMETHING TO 536 00:21:04,813 --> 00:21:07,282 KIND OF REPRESENT THIS 537 00:21:07,282 --> 00:21:08,517 PARTICULAR CHALLENGE THAT WE ALL 538 00:21:08,517 --> 00:21:10,619 FACED HERE IN 2020 ON THIS 539 00:21:10,619 --> 00:21:10,953 MISSION. 540 00:21:10,953 --> 00:21:18,460 IF YOU BRING UP THE NEXT 541 00:21:18,460 --> 00:21:21,964 GRAPHIC, YOU CAN SEE 542 00:21:21,964 --> 00:21:24,032 A TECHNICIAN ON OUR ASSEMBLY 543 00:21:24,032 --> 00:21:25,067 TEAM INSTALLING A PLATE. 544 00:21:25,067 --> 00:21:27,235 THIS IS ON THE -- A LITTLE HARD 545 00:21:27,235 --> 00:21:32,374 TO TELL, BUT ON THE AFT-PORT 546 00:21:32,374 --> 00:21:33,575 SIDE OF THE ROVER. 547 00:21:33,575 --> 00:21:36,411 WE CALL THE PLATE THE 548 00:21:36,411 --> 00:21:39,047 PERSEVERANCE COVID-19 PLATE. 549 00:21:39,047 --> 00:21:41,984 THERE IS A GOOD SHOT OF IT. 550 00:21:41,984 --> 00:21:45,887 YOU CAN SEE WE HAVE 551 00:21:45,887 --> 00:21:47,889 REPRESENTATION OF THE EARTH ON 552 00:21:47,889 --> 00:21:50,692 THE TOP KIND OF TO SYMBOLIZE THE 553 00:21:50,692 --> 00:21:53,795 CHALLENGE THAT WE FACE, YOU 554 00:21:53,795 --> 00:21:56,765 KNOW, GLOBALLY AS THE PANDEMIC 555 00:21:56,765 --> 00:21:57,199 STRUCK. 556 00:21:57,199 --> 00:21:59,601 WE HAVE REPRESENTATION OF THE 557 00:21:59,601 --> 00:22:01,570 SPACECRAFT LEAVING THE EARTH AND 558 00:22:01,570 --> 00:22:02,971 HEADING TO MARS. 559 00:22:02,971 --> 00:22:06,008 OF COURSE, ALL OF THIS IS 560 00:22:06,008 --> 00:22:09,444 APPROPRIATELY SUPPORTED BY THE 561 00:22:09,444 --> 00:22:11,413 ROD AND SERPENT OF THE MEDICAL 562 00:22:11,413 --> 00:22:12,180 COMMUNITY. 563 00:22:12,180 --> 00:22:15,584 DURING THIS PERIOD, THIS IS 564 00:22:15,584 --> 00:22:17,853 A GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT REALLY 565 00:22:17,853 --> 00:22:21,490 INSPIRED OUR TEAM TO KEEP GOING. 566 00:22:21,490 --> 00:22:23,558 AND WE HOPE THAT IN SOME SMALL 567 00:22:23,558 --> 00:22:25,560 WAY THIS MISSION CAN HELP 568 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:26,928 INSPIRE THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE HAD 569 00:22:26,928 --> 00:22:30,799 TO GO THROUGH THIS PANDEMIC AS 570 00:22:30,799 --> 00:22:33,201 WELL. 571 00:22:33,201 --> 00:22:36,838 GO TO THE NEXT GRAPHIC PLEASE. 572 00:22:36,838 --> 00:22:38,774 I MENTIONED THE TEAM AND YOU SAW 573 00:22:38,774 --> 00:22:39,174 PICTURES. 574 00:22:39,174 --> 00:22:41,309 OUR TEAM DOESN'T END WITH 575 00:22:41,309 --> 00:22:42,844 INTERNATIONAL CONTRIBUTION AND 576 00:22:42,844 --> 00:22:45,580 INDUSTRY PARTNERS AND OTHER NASA 577 00:22:45,580 --> 00:22:45,914 CENTERS. 578 00:22:45,914 --> 00:22:48,183 WE INCLUDE ALL OF YOU AS WELL. 579 00:22:48,183 --> 00:22:49,785 THIS PLATE, IF YOU LOOK AT THE 580 00:22:49,785 --> 00:22:51,686 TOP LEFT CORNER OF THIS PLATE, 581 00:22:51,686 --> 00:22:57,926 YOU WILL SEE THREE SMALL MICRO 582 00:22:57,926 --> 00:22:59,795 FICHE CHIPS, THESE ARE THE 583 00:22:59,795 --> 00:23:03,065 PLACES WHERE FAMILIES NAMES AND 584 00:23:03,065 --> 00:23:04,066 11 MILLION OTHER NAMES ARE 585 00:23:04,066 --> 00:23:05,434 ETCHED ON TO THE CHIPS. 586 00:23:05,434 --> 00:23:07,736 WE HAD ONLY INTENDED TO FLY ONE, 587 00:23:07,736 --> 00:23:10,072 BUT WE GOT SO MUCH INTEREST WE 588 00:23:10,072 --> 00:23:12,140 COULDN'T FIT IT ON ONE AND FLEW 589 00:23:12,140 --> 00:23:12,607 THREE. 590 00:23:12,607 --> 00:23:14,443 YOU SEE ON THE PLATE AS WELL 591 00:23:14,443 --> 00:23:18,046 REPRESENTATION OF THE SOLAR 592 00:23:18,046 --> 00:23:21,783 SYSTEM AND THERE IS SOME HIDDEN 593 00:23:21,783 --> 00:23:23,585 MORSE CODE IN THE RAYS OF THE 594 00:23:23,585 --> 00:23:26,088 SUN PEOPLE RECOGNIZED SPELLED 595 00:23:26,088 --> 00:23:28,390 OUT EXPLORE AT ONE, WHICH IS 596 00:23:28,390 --> 00:23:31,093 WHAT WE INTEND TO DO. 597 00:23:31,093 --> 00:23:32,694 YOU KNOW, WE ARE GOING TO LAUNCH 598 00:23:32,694 --> 00:23:35,997 THE VEHICLE HERE IN JUST 599 00:23:35,997 --> 00:23:39,868 A COUPLE DAYS AND WE ARE LOOKING 600 00:23:39,868 --> 00:23:41,770 FORWARD TO HAVING EVERYBODY COME 601 00:23:41,770 --> 00:23:43,505 ALONG FOR THE RIDE. 602 00:23:43,505 --> 00:23:49,811 IF YOU GO TO NASA.GOV YOU WILL 603 00:23:49,811 --> 00:23:51,513 FIND PLENTY OF EXPERIENCES THERE 604 00:23:51,513 --> 00:23:54,382 TO SEE THE LAUNCH AND BEHIND THE 605 00:23:54,382 --> 00:23:56,284 SCENES INTERVIEWS. 606 00:23:56,284 --> 00:24:03,859 ALSO AT MARS.NASA.GOV/MARS2020, 607 00:24:03,859 --> 00:24:05,260 IF YOU CLICK ON PARTICIPATE 608 00:24:05,260 --> 00:24:07,062 THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET 609 00:24:07,062 --> 00:24:10,432 TO COOL SOCIAL MEDIA FILTERS. 610 00:24:10,432 --> 00:24:12,400 A PHOTO BOOTH THERE. 611 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:14,936 TAKE A PICTURE WITH THE MARS 612 00:24:14,936 --> 00:24:17,405 PERSEVERANCE ROVER. 613 00:24:17,405 --> 00:24:19,307 WE INVITE ALL OF YOU TO RIDE 614 00:24:19,307 --> 00:24:21,276 SHOTGUN WITH US STARTING ON 615 00:24:21,276 --> 00:24:22,577 THURSDAY AND WITH THAT I WILL 616 00:24:22,577 --> 00:24:24,913 HAND IT OVER TO OUR LAUNCH 617 00:24:24,913 --> 00:24:27,115 DIRECTOR. 618 00:24:27,115 --> 00:24:29,317 >> THANK YOU, MATT. 619 00:24:29,317 --> 00:24:33,288 AS EVERYBODY ELSE HERE HAS 620 00:24:33,288 --> 00:24:35,924 MENTIONED, OUR SITUATION DID 621 00:24:35,924 --> 00:24:36,258 CHANGE. 622 00:24:36,258 --> 00:24:41,329 I WOULD HAVE NEVER THOUGHT THE 623 00:24:41,329 --> 00:24:43,598 LAUNCH DIRECTOR WOULD WORK FROM 624 00:24:43,598 --> 00:24:43,932 HOME. 625 00:24:43,932 --> 00:24:47,936 I HAVE DONE THAT FOR THE LAST 626 00:24:47,936 --> 00:24:50,972 FIVE MONTHS. 627 00:24:50,972 --> 00:24:53,642 WE USED TO HAVE SOMETHING CALLED 628 00:24:53,642 --> 00:24:55,177 EVERY OTHER YEAR HERE CALLED 629 00:24:55,177 --> 00:24:56,945 TAKE YOUR KIDS TO WORK. 630 00:24:56,945 --> 00:24:57,913 GUESS WHAT? 631 00:24:57,913 --> 00:24:59,614 EVERY DAY WAS TAKES YOUR KIDS TO 632 00:24:59,614 --> 00:25:02,384 WORK DAY. 633 00:25:02,384 --> 00:25:04,586 AND I BET IT HAS BEEN AN 634 00:25:04,586 --> 00:25:06,488 EXPERIENCE FOR THE KIDS. 635 00:25:06,488 --> 00:25:10,859 IT IS HUMBLING AS A PARENT TO 636 00:25:10,859 --> 00:25:15,297 SEE HOW OUR WHOLE TEAM FROM THE 637 00:25:15,297 --> 00:25:17,766 RANGE TO OUR PARTNERS AT JPL TO 638 00:25:17,766 --> 00:25:23,338 OUR PARTNERS ULA TO THE FOLKS AT 639 00:25:23,338 --> 00:25:25,373 HEADQUARTERS HAD WE ALL HAD TO 640 00:25:25,373 --> 00:25:26,608 ADJUST TO WORK IN THIS 641 00:25:26,608 --> 00:25:30,679 ENVIRONMENT AND TO COLLABORATE 642 00:25:30,679 --> 00:25:31,446 ELECTRONICALLY WHERE BEFORE IT 643 00:25:31,446 --> 00:25:34,449 WAS A FACE-TO-FACE INTERACTION 644 00:25:34,449 --> 00:25:36,184 VERSUS, YOU KNOW, SEEING 645 00:25:36,184 --> 00:25:38,286 SOMEBODY'S LITTLE PICTURE ON 646 00:25:38,286 --> 00:25:42,824 A COMPUTER SCREEN AND VOICE. 647 00:25:42,824 --> 00:25:45,360 AND EVEN AS SIMPLE AS A LAUNCH 648 00:25:45,360 --> 00:25:48,129 READINESS REVIEW WE HAD THIS 649 00:25:48,129 --> 00:25:49,764 MORNING WOULD HAVE BEEN SHOULDER 650 00:25:49,764 --> 00:25:50,365 TO SHOULDER. 651 00:25:50,365 --> 00:25:52,500 THAT ROOM WOULD HAVE BEEN FULL 652 00:25:52,500 --> 00:25:56,204 AND PEOPLE STANDING UP IN THE 653 00:25:56,204 --> 00:25:56,504 BACK. 654 00:25:56,504 --> 00:25:58,173 SPARSE SETTINGS, EVERYBODY 655 00:25:58,173 --> 00:25:59,507 WEARING A MASK. 656 00:25:59,507 --> 00:26:00,508 TROUBLE HEARING SOME PEOPLE 657 00:26:00,508 --> 00:26:02,444 BECAUSE THEY ARE WEARING MASKS. 658 00:26:02,444 --> 00:26:04,946 THERE IS A CHALLENGE AND 659 00:26:04,946 --> 00:26:07,515 A PENALTY THAT GOES WITH DOING 660 00:26:07,515 --> 00:26:08,783 THESE THINGS. 661 00:26:08,783 --> 00:26:11,620 I HAVE SEEN THE TEAM REACT AND 662 00:26:11,620 --> 00:26:13,922 OVERCOME ALL OF THAT. 663 00:26:13,922 --> 00:26:17,225 IT MAKES ME VERY PROUD. 664 00:26:17,225 --> 00:26:20,061 AND HERE WE ARE. 665 00:26:20,061 --> 00:26:22,130 A COUPLE DAYS FROM LAUNCH. 666 00:26:22,130 --> 00:26:24,199 WE DID COMPLETE THE LAUNCH 667 00:26:24,199 --> 00:26:26,268 READINESS REVIEW. 668 00:26:26,268 --> 00:26:29,237 IF I COULD HAVE THE FOLKS ROLL 669 00:26:29,237 --> 00:26:31,406 A SHORT VIDEO HERE I'LL SHOW YOU 670 00:26:31,406 --> 00:26:34,709 HOW WE ARE GOING TO GET 671 00:26:34,709 --> 00:26:36,411 PERSEVERANCE TO THE RED PLANET. 672 00:26:36,411 --> 00:26:38,413 IT STARTS WITH THAT RIGHT THERE. 673 00:26:38,413 --> 00:26:47,188 THAT IS THE ATLAS 5 WITH THE 674 00:26:47,188 --> 00:26:54,195 MOTORS INTO THE ML P AT COMPLEX 675 00:26:54,195 --> 00:26:55,497 41. 676 00:26:55,497 --> 00:26:56,231 SRMs GOING UP. 677 00:26:56,231 --> 00:26:57,632 WE ARE FLYING FOUR OF THEM ON 678 00:26:57,632 --> 00:26:58,400 THIS MISSION. 679 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:02,837 THAT GIVES THE ATLAS THE EXTRA 680 00:27:02,837 --> 00:27:04,673 OOMPH IT NEEDS TO LEAVE THE 681 00:27:04,673 --> 00:27:07,375 EARTH'S GRAVITY WELL WITH 682 00:27:07,375 --> 00:27:09,477 PERSEVERANCE AND INGENUITY. 683 00:27:09,477 --> 00:27:13,581 AND YOU SEE THE LAST TIME WE GOT 684 00:27:13,581 --> 00:27:16,051 TO SEE THE ROVER AND HELICOPTER 685 00:27:16,051 --> 00:27:18,253 STACK BEFORE IT GOT 686 00:27:18,253 --> 00:27:18,687 ENCAPSULATED. 687 00:27:18,687 --> 00:27:21,756 AND WE TOOK THAT OUT TO COMPLEX 688 00:27:21,756 --> 00:27:26,561 41 ON THE 7th. 689 00:27:26,561 --> 00:27:28,096 AND STACK TODAY ON TOP OF THE 690 00:27:28,096 --> 00:27:28,430 VEHICLE. 691 00:27:28,430 --> 00:27:32,801 GOT IT READY. 692 00:27:32,801 --> 00:27:37,505 ENVIRONMENTALLY FOR PLANETARY 693 00:27:37,505 --> 00:27:39,140 PROTECTION PURPOSES WE HAD TO 694 00:27:39,140 --> 00:27:41,976 PREPARE THAT AREA TO INGRESS AND 695 00:27:41,976 --> 00:27:42,310 EGRESS. 696 00:27:42,310 --> 00:27:45,680 ON THE 24th OF THIS MONTH WE 697 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:48,416 INSERTED THE RTG THAT WILLPOWER 698 00:27:48,416 --> 00:27:51,052 THE ROVER ON MARS FOR THE NEXT 699 00:27:51,052 --> 00:27:54,456 COUPLE OF YEARS. 700 00:27:54,456 --> 00:27:56,758 AND WE FINISHED OUT ALL OUR 701 00:27:56,758 --> 00:27:58,793 TESTING AND ALL THAT REMAINS IS 702 00:27:58,793 --> 00:28:01,029 I HAVE THREE GOES TO GO. 703 00:28:01,029 --> 00:28:02,997 TOMORROW AT 8:00 O'CLOCK IN THE 704 00:28:02,997 --> 00:28:04,299 MORNING I GET THE GO FOR THE 705 00:28:04,299 --> 00:28:07,469 VEHICLE TO ROLL OUT. 706 00:28:07,469 --> 00:28:09,637 WE TAKE A DAY OF REST AFTER 707 00:28:09,637 --> 00:28:11,706 TOMORROW TO GET SYNCED UP WITH 708 00:28:11,706 --> 00:28:16,111 HAVING TO COME IN AT TWO TKHR-BR 709 00:28:16,111 --> 00:28:17,312 3:00 IN THE MORNING. 710 00:28:17,312 --> 00:28:18,380 A GO TO FUEL THE VEHICLE. 711 00:28:18,380 --> 00:28:20,582 AND ONCE WE ARE READY AND THE 712 00:28:20,582 --> 00:28:22,350 SPACECRAFT IS CONFIGURED, ONE 713 00:28:22,350 --> 00:28:24,919 MORE GO AND FOUR MINUTES LATER 714 00:28:24,919 --> 00:28:26,488 WE ARE GOING TO BE FLYING TO 715 00:28:26,488 --> 00:28:26,988 MARS. 716 00:28:26,988 --> 00:28:29,457 AND THAT MAKES MY JOB REALLY 717 00:28:29,457 --> 00:28:29,791 SIMPLE. 718 00:28:29,791 --> 00:28:32,927 AND OVER TO TOREY TO EXPLAIN THE 719 00:28:32,927 --> 00:28:36,731 REST OF IT. 720 00:28:36,731 --> 00:28:38,233 >> I CANNOT TELL YOU HOW 721 00:28:38,233 --> 00:28:45,073 THRILLED WE TORLIFT 722 00:28:45,073 --> 00:28:45,507 PERSEVERANCE. 723 00:28:45,507 --> 00:28:48,276 THIS ONE IS ARGUABLY THE MOST 724 00:28:48,276 --> 00:28:49,744 SOPHISTICATED AND IN SOME WAYS 725 00:28:49,744 --> 00:28:51,413 THE MOST EXCITING OF ALL OF 726 00:28:51,413 --> 00:28:51,713 THEM. 727 00:28:51,713 --> 00:28:53,815 IT WILL SIT ATOP OUR MIGHTY 728 00:28:53,815 --> 00:28:58,553 ATLAS AND THE 541 CONFIGURATION. 729 00:28:58,553 --> 00:28:59,988 I CALL THAT THE DOMINATOR. 730 00:28:59,988 --> 00:29:03,591 THAT IS OUR SECOND MOST POWERFUL 731 00:29:03,591 --> 00:29:04,426 ATLAS. 732 00:29:04,426 --> 00:29:06,661 SUPPLEMENTING THAT CORE WITH ITS 733 00:29:06,661 --> 00:29:13,868 EIGHT 6,000 POUNDS -- 860 POUNDS 734 00:29:13,868 --> 00:29:15,570 OF THRUST EACH OF THEM 735 00:29:15,570 --> 00:29:18,206 GENERATING ANOTHER 736 00:29:18,206 --> 00:29:20,542 280,000 POUNDS OF THRUST. 737 00:29:20,542 --> 00:29:22,243 THIS ROCKET WILL LEAP OFF THE 738 00:29:22,243 --> 00:29:24,646 PAD WITH THIS RELATIVELY TINY 739 00:29:24,646 --> 00:29:25,413 PAY LOAD. 740 00:29:25,413 --> 00:29:27,715 DO NOT BLINK WHEN THEY SAY 741 00:29:27,715 --> 00:29:28,583 IGINATION. 742 00:29:28,583 --> 00:29:30,518 I HAVE A MISSION PROFILE VIDEO 743 00:29:30,518 --> 00:29:32,320 TO SHOW YOU AND WALK THROUGH 744 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:33,888 WHAT THAT FLIGHT WILL LOOK LIKE. 745 00:29:33,888 --> 00:29:40,195 IF YOU COULD RUN THAT, PLEASE. 746 00:29:40,195 --> 00:29:44,232 >> 2, 1, 0 AND LIFTOFF OF THE 747 00:29:44,232 --> 00:29:44,732 ATLAS 5. 748 00:29:44,732 --> 00:29:52,774 >> THE ATLAS 5 IGNITES TO 749 00:29:52,774 --> 00:29:55,510 GENERATE 10.2 MILLION NEWTONS TO 750 00:29:55,510 --> 00:29:59,347 LIFT THE ROCKET ON THE WAY TO IA 751 00:29:59,347 --> 00:30:00,415 HYPERBOLIC ESCAPE PRACTICE 752 00:30:00,415 --> 00:30:00,782 JECTORY. 753 00:30:00,782 --> 00:30:04,919 SHORTLY AFTER LIFTOFF ATLAS WILL 754 00:30:04,919 --> 00:30:10,959 PITCH TO THE PROPER FLIGHT PATH. 755 00:30:10,959 --> 00:30:14,762 THE ATLAS 5 REACHES MAAC 1, THE 756 00:30:14,762 --> 00:30:17,532 SPEED OF SOUND AT 35 SECONDS. 757 00:30:17,532 --> 00:30:19,000 FOLLOWING BURN OUT THE FOUR 758 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,636 SRBs ARE JETTISONED AT 1:49. 759 00:30:21,636 --> 00:30:23,938 THE NEXT TWO AND A HALF MINUTES 760 00:30:23,938 --> 00:30:25,940 OF FIRST STAGE FLIGHT THE ATLAS 761 00:30:25,940 --> 00:30:30,178 FLIGHT WILL TRIPLE ITS VELOSITY. 762 00:30:30,178 --> 00:30:33,581 3:27 THE PAY LOT FERRING IS 763 00:30:33,581 --> 00:30:35,617 JETTISONED. 764 00:30:35,617 --> 00:30:37,785 AT 4:22 PROPELLANT LEVELS 765 00:30:37,785 --> 00:30:39,053 DEPLETE AND THE BOOSTER ENGINE 766 00:30:39,053 --> 00:30:43,258 SHUTS DOWN. 767 00:30:43,258 --> 00:30:48,930 THE ATLAS IS TRAVELING 13470 768 00:30:48,930 --> 00:30:52,367 MILES PER HOUR AND LOCATED 769 00:30:52,367 --> 00:30:53,368 NEARLY 156 KILLOM TORES OR 770 00:30:53,368 --> 00:30:57,305 97 MILES IN ALTITUDE OR 771 00:30:57,305 --> 00:30:58,306 309 MILES DOWN RANGE. 772 00:30:58,306 --> 00:31:04,012 SIX SECONDS LATER THE ATLAS 773 00:31:04,012 --> 00:31:04,979 SEPARATION SYSTEM. 774 00:31:04,979 --> 00:31:08,016 THE VEHICLE WAYS 5% OF WHAT IT 775 00:31:08,016 --> 00:31:09,484 DID AT LIFTOFF. 776 00:31:09,484 --> 00:31:11,085 10 SECONDS LATER THE FIRST BURN 777 00:31:11,085 --> 00:31:14,088 OF THE MAIN ENGINE BEGINS, 778 00:31:14,088 --> 00:31:16,357 BURNING LIQUID HYDROGEN AND 779 00:31:16,357 --> 00:31:25,033 OXYGEN THE CENTAUR IS OBTAINING 780 00:31:25,033 --> 00:31:26,067 ORBITAL. 781 00:31:26,067 --> 00:31:30,371 THE MISSION ENTERS A 30 MINUTE 782 00:31:30,371 --> 00:31:32,941 COAST PHASE. 783 00:31:32,941 --> 00:31:36,077 THE CENTAUR MAIN ENGINE IS 784 00:31:36,077 --> 00:31:36,844 RESTARTED AT 45 MINUTES AND THIS 785 00:31:36,844 --> 00:31:38,146 BURN PROVIDES THE REQUIRED 786 00:31:38,146 --> 00:31:40,448 THRUST FOR CENTAUR TO ESCAPE 787 00:31:40,448 --> 00:31:43,217 EARTH ORBIT. 788 00:31:43,217 --> 00:31:43,885 APPROXIMATELY EIGHT MINUTES 789 00:31:43,885 --> 00:31:45,954 LATER FINAL CUT OFF OF THE 790 00:31:45,954 --> 00:31:48,323 CENTAUR MAIN ENGINE OCCURS AND 791 00:31:48,323 --> 00:31:50,391 COMPLETES POWERED FLIGHT. 792 00:31:50,391 --> 00:31:51,926 CENTAUR WILL COAST FOR NEARLY 793 00:31:51,926 --> 00:31:54,195 FIVE MINUTES IN PREPARATION FOR 794 00:31:54,195 --> 00:31:55,964 SPACECRAFT SEPARATION. 795 00:31:55,964 --> 00:31:58,266 AT ABOUT 57 AND A HALF MINUTE, 796 00:31:58,266 --> 00:31:59,667 CENTAUR RELEASES THE SPACECRAFT 797 00:31:59,667 --> 00:32:01,703 INTO A HYPER BOLLIC ORBIT 798 00:32:01,703 --> 00:32:04,238 TRAVELING AT MORE THAN 799 00:32:04,238 --> 00:32:05,540 41,000-KILOMETERS OR 26,000 800 00:32:05,540 --> 00:32:07,442 MILES PER HOUR ON A SEVEN MONTH 801 00:32:07,442 --> 00:32:10,078 CRUISE TO MARS, WHERE IT WILL 802 00:32:10,078 --> 00:32:12,580 SEEK SIGNS EVER ANCIENT LIFE ON 803 00:32:12,580 --> 00:32:14,649 THE RED PLANET AND COLLECT ROCK 804 00:32:14,649 --> 00:32:16,084 AND SOIL SAMPLES FOR POSSIBLE 805 00:32:16,084 --> 00:32:21,889 RETURN TO EARTH. 806 00:32:21,889 --> 00:32:25,259 >> SO THE VEHICLE IS SITTING 807 00:32:25,259 --> 00:32:30,865 ATOP ITS LAUNCH PLATFORM RIGHT 808 00:32:30,865 --> 00:32:31,799 NOW. 809 00:32:31,799 --> 00:32:33,267 PROCESSING HAS BEEN GOING 810 00:32:33,267 --> 00:32:34,802 SMOOTHLY FOR THE LAST SEVERAL 811 00:32:34,802 --> 00:32:35,103 DAYS. 812 00:32:35,103 --> 00:32:38,039 ATLAS IS GO, CENTAUR IS GO AND 813 00:32:38,039 --> 00:32:40,008 WE ARE LITERALLY CHOMPING AT THE 814 00:32:40,008 --> 00:32:43,044 BIT TO TAKE THIS NUCLEAR POWERED 815 00:32:43,044 --> 00:32:48,249 DUNE BUGGY OUT TO MARS. 816 00:32:48,249 --> 00:32:48,750 >> FANTASTIC. 817 00:32:48,750 --> 00:32:49,684 THAT'S SO MUCH. 818 00:32:49,684 --> 00:32:54,989 NEXT TO JESSICA WILLIAMS. 819 00:32:54,989 --> 00:32:56,557 >> THE WEATHER LOOKS FAVORABLE 820 00:32:56,557 --> 00:32:58,192 FOR LAUNCH THURSDAY MORNING. 821 00:32:58,192 --> 00:33:01,863 TODAY WE HAD A SURFACE RIDGE OF 822 00:33:01,863 --> 00:33:03,131 HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING IN SOUTH 823 00:33:03,131 --> 00:33:06,067 FLORIDA AND WHAT THIS DID WAS 824 00:33:06,067 --> 00:33:07,702 SHIFT THE WEATHER PATTERN SO WE 825 00:33:07,702 --> 00:33:09,570 HAVE SOUTHWEST WINDS IN THE LOW 826 00:33:09,570 --> 00:33:11,005 LEVELS IN THE MORNING. 827 00:33:11,005 --> 00:33:12,240 THAT'S OFFSHORE WINDS. 828 00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:13,941 THIS PATTERN WILL PERSIST 829 00:33:13,941 --> 00:33:14,709 THROUGH THIS WEEKEND. 830 00:33:14,709 --> 00:33:17,011 THROUGH THE 48 HOUR BACK UP 831 00:33:17,011 --> 00:33:17,345 WINDOW. 832 00:33:17,345 --> 00:33:19,747 THIS GIVES US DRY MORNINGS WITH 833 00:33:19,747 --> 00:33:21,115 THE OFFSHORE WINDS. 834 00:33:21,115 --> 00:33:23,117 IT DOES GIVE US CHANCES FOR 835 00:33:23,117 --> 00:33:23,885 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE 836 00:33:23,885 --> 00:33:25,920 AFTERNOON AND EVENING. 837 00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:31,225 IF WE LOOK AT OUR LAUNCH DAY 838 00:33:31,225 --> 00:33:32,427 FORECAST, THE CHART FOR THE 839 00:33:32,427 --> 00:33:35,063 LAUNCH DAY FORECAST WE SHOULD 840 00:33:35,063 --> 00:33:39,100 HAVE A 20% PROBABILITY OF 841 00:33:39,100 --> 00:33:41,402 VIOLATION OF THE CUMULOUS CLOUD 842 00:33:41,402 --> 00:33:42,603 RULES AND THE THICK CLOUD RULE 843 00:33:42,603 --> 00:33:45,006 AND THIS IS DUE TO A WEAK 844 00:33:45,006 --> 00:33:46,374 BOUNDARY BEING OFF THE COAST OF 845 00:33:46,374 --> 00:33:47,041 THE SOUTHEAST. 846 00:33:47,041 --> 00:33:49,310 WE ARE EXPECTING TO SEE ISOLATED 847 00:33:49,310 --> 00:33:53,548 TO A FEW SCATTERED SHOWERS JUST 848 00:33:53,548 --> 00:33:54,849 OFFSHORE FROM COMPLEX 41, BUT 849 00:33:54,849 --> 00:33:56,818 THEY WILL MOVE LITTLE OR AWAY 850 00:33:56,818 --> 00:33:57,285 FROM THE PAD. 851 00:33:57,285 --> 00:34:00,054 WE HAVE THAT SLIGHT CHANCE OF 852 00:34:00,054 --> 00:34:01,422 VIOLATING FOR THE CUMULOUS CLOUD 853 00:34:01,422 --> 00:34:03,157 RULE AND EXPECTED TO BE 854 00:34:03,157 --> 00:34:05,460 MID-LEVEL CLOUDS SCATTERED TO 855 00:34:05,460 --> 00:34:07,662 BROKEN ASSOCIATED WITH THIS WEAK 856 00:34:07,662 --> 00:34:08,896 BOUNDARY OFF THE COAST. 857 00:34:08,896 --> 00:34:10,565 WE COULD SEE JUST A BRIEF PERIOD 858 00:34:10,565 --> 00:34:13,434 OF VIOLATING THE THICK CLOUD 859 00:34:13,434 --> 00:34:16,738 LAYER RULE BUT IT IS AT A 20% 860 00:34:16,738 --> 00:34:18,473 VIOLATION FOR THE OVER ALL TWO 861 00:34:18,473 --> 00:34:20,108 HOUR WINDOW. 862 00:34:20,108 --> 00:34:22,977 IF WE LOOK AT OUR 24-HOUR BACK 863 00:34:22,977 --> 00:34:25,246 UP CHART, AGAIN, WE HAVE 864 00:34:25,246 --> 00:34:26,514 OFFSHORE WINDS FROM THE 865 00:34:26,514 --> 00:34:29,417 SOUTHWEST IN THE MORNING 8 TO 10 866 00:34:29,417 --> 00:34:30,752 KNOTS. 867 00:34:30,752 --> 00:34:32,353 A 10% PROBABILITY OF VIOLATING 868 00:34:32,353 --> 00:34:34,956 FOR THE CUMULOUS CLOUD RULE AS 869 00:34:34,956 --> 00:34:37,058 THE WEAK BOUNDARY STARTS TO 870 00:34:37,058 --> 00:34:37,425 DIMINISH. 871 00:34:37,425 --> 00:34:39,327 THE CHANCES FOR ANY CUMULOUS 872 00:34:39,327 --> 00:34:41,129 CLOUDS IN THE FLIGHT PATH OVER 873 00:34:41,129 --> 00:34:43,297 THE WATER JUST OFF THE COAST 874 00:34:43,297 --> 00:34:45,700 REDUCED FROM THE DAY BEFORE. 875 00:34:45,700 --> 00:34:50,738 IF WE LOOK AT 48 HOUR BACK UP 876 00:34:50,738 --> 00:34:52,173 WINDOW THE WEATHER STILL LOOKS 877 00:34:52,173 --> 00:34:53,908 FAVORABLE WITH OFFSHORE WINDS 878 00:34:53,908 --> 00:34:55,610 FROM THE SOUTHWEST OR SOUTH FROM 879 00:34:55,610 --> 00:34:58,279 THE WEST REALLY, THEY PICK UP 12 880 00:34:58,279 --> 00:35:00,715 KNOTS SUSTAINED GUSTS TO 16 881 00:35:00,715 --> 00:35:03,317 KNOTS AT 230 FEET. 882 00:35:03,317 --> 00:35:05,353 HOWEVER, THE UPPER LEVEL WIND 883 00:35:05,353 --> 00:35:07,355 FLOW DOES CHANGE AND BECOME MORE 884 00:35:07,355 --> 00:35:08,623 FROM THE EAST AND STRONGER. 885 00:35:08,623 --> 00:35:11,259 IF WE DO SEE ANY SHOWERS AND 886 00:35:11,259 --> 00:35:12,059 THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE GULF 887 00:35:12,059 --> 00:35:13,694 STREAM, WHICH IS TYPICAL FOR 888 00:35:13,694 --> 00:35:15,897 THIS TIME OF YEAR IN THE 889 00:35:15,897 --> 00:35:16,731 MORNING, AND IF THEY DO PRODUCE 890 00:35:16,731 --> 00:35:18,966 ANY ANVIL CLOUDS, IT'S A SLIGHT 891 00:35:18,966 --> 00:35:20,835 POSSIBILITY OF THE ANVILS 892 00:35:20,835 --> 00:35:22,570 REACHING CLOSE TO THE COAST, 893 00:35:22,570 --> 00:35:24,205 THAT IS WHY WE HAVE THE 20% 894 00:35:24,205 --> 00:35:26,607 PROBABILITY OF VIOLATION FOR THE 895 00:35:26,607 --> 00:35:29,477 ATTACH AND DETACH ANVIL CLOUD 896 00:35:29,477 --> 00:35:30,545 RULES FOR THE 48 HOUR BACK UP 897 00:35:30,545 --> 00:35:31,779 DAY ON SATURDAY MORNING. 898 00:35:31,779 --> 00:35:33,848 AGAIN, OVER ALL, IN A VERY 899 00:35:33,848 --> 00:35:36,150 FAVORABLE WEATHER PATTERN FOR 900 00:35:36,150 --> 00:35:38,119 A MORNING LAUNCH TIME FRAME FOR 901 00:35:38,119 --> 00:35:40,454 THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. 902 00:35:40,454 --> 00:35:42,990 >> THANK YOU, JESSICA. 903 00:35:42,990 --> 00:35:43,691 NOW WE WILL START TAKING 904 00:35:43,691 --> 00:35:45,193 QUESTIONS FROM REPORTERS AND 905 00:35:45,193 --> 00:35:46,527 SOCIAL MEDIA. 906 00:35:46,527 --> 00:35:48,896 FOR REPORTERS, PRESS STAR 1 TO 907 00:35:48,896 --> 00:35:50,665 ASK YOUR QUESTIONS AND THOSE 908 00:35:50,665 --> 00:36:04,078 ON-LINE CAN USE THE 909 00:36:04,078 --> 00:36:04,612 #COUNTDOWNTOMARS. 910 00:36:04,612 --> 00:36:05,246 >> CAN YOU HEAR ME? 911 00:36:05,246 --> 00:36:05,646 >> YES. 912 00:36:05,646 --> 00:36:06,147 >> HELLO IN. 913 00:36:06,147 --> 00:36:06,814 >> YES, WE CAN HEAR YOU. 914 00:36:06,814 --> 00:36:07,348 >> YES, GREAT. 915 00:36:07,348 --> 00:36:08,049 I CANNOT REMEMBER SO MUCH 916 00:36:08,049 --> 00:36:09,917 COMPANY ON THE WAY TO MARS AS 917 00:36:09,917 --> 00:36:11,986 THERE IS HAPPENING THIS YEAR. 918 00:36:11,986 --> 00:36:17,091 I WAS WONDERING IF EITHER 919 00:36:17,091 --> 00:36:19,327 MR. BRIDENSTINE OR THE DOCTOR 920 00:36:19,327 --> 00:36:23,331 COULD COMMENT ON CHINA ON THE 921 00:36:23,331 --> 00:36:25,800 WAY TO MARS AND IF THERE IS ANY 922 00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:27,535 SENSE OF COMPETITION AND IS THE 923 00:36:27,535 --> 00:36:31,706 PRESSURE ON NOW THAT THE WORLD 924 00:36:31,706 --> 00:36:34,775 [INAUDIBLE] 925 00:36:34,775 --> 00:36:36,077 COMING UP. 926 00:36:36,077 --> 00:36:36,644 THANKS. 927 00:36:36,644 --> 00:36:38,145 >> SURE, I'LL START. 928 00:36:38,145 --> 00:36:41,115 NUMBER ONE, WE WELCOME MORE 929 00:36:41,115 --> 00:36:43,851 NATIONS TAKING TRIPS TO MARS AND 930 00:36:43,851 --> 00:36:45,620 STUDYING IT AND DELIVERING THE 931 00:36:45,620 --> 00:36:50,258 SCIENCE AND SHARING THE SCIENCE 932 00:36:50,258 --> 00:36:50,858 WITH THE WORLD. 933 00:36:50,858 --> 00:36:53,127 IT'S A VERY UNITING KIND OF 934 00:36:53,127 --> 00:36:53,427 THING. 935 00:36:53,427 --> 00:36:55,563 I DON'T SEE THIS AS 936 00:36:55,563 --> 00:36:56,397 A COMPETITION AT ALL. 937 00:36:56,397 --> 00:36:59,033 THIS IS OUR NINTHS TIME TO GO TO 938 00:36:59,033 --> 00:37:01,903 MARS AND LAND SOFTLY AND DO 939 00:37:01,903 --> 00:37:03,104 ROBOTIC EXPERIMENTS AND 940 00:37:03,104 --> 00:37:03,471 DISCOVERY. 941 00:37:03,471 --> 00:37:05,840 WE HAVE BEEN DOING THIS NOW FOR 942 00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:07,675 DECADES SUCCESSFULLY. 943 00:37:07,675 --> 00:37:10,011 AND, OF COURSE, THIS MISSION IS 944 00:37:10,011 --> 00:37:13,381 BY FAR THE MOST SOPHISTICATED 945 00:37:13,381 --> 00:37:13,915 MISSION EVER. 946 00:37:13,915 --> 00:37:17,551 I DON'T SEE IT AS A COMPETITION, 947 00:37:17,551 --> 00:37:19,820 BUT CERTAINLY WE WELCOME MORE 948 00:37:19,820 --> 00:37:20,988 EXPLORERS TO DELIVER MORE 949 00:37:20,988 --> 00:37:22,089 SCIENCE THAN EVER BEFORE AND 950 00:37:22,089 --> 00:37:25,660 SEEING WHAT IT IS THEY ARE ABLE 951 00:37:25,660 --> 00:37:40,174 TO DISCOVER. 952 00:37:40,174 --> 00:37:42,910 >> I THINK MY QUESTION IS FOR 953 00:37:42,910 --> 00:37:43,210 MATT. 954 00:37:43,210 --> 00:37:45,112 YOU MENTIONED YOU WORKED ON 955 00:37:45,112 --> 00:37:47,415 NUMEROUS ROVERS BEFORE. 956 00:37:47,415 --> 00:37:51,185 YOU LISTED ALL THE FIRSTS. 957 00:37:51,185 --> 00:37:53,854 CAN YOU COMPLAYER THE COMPLEXITY 958 00:37:53,854 --> 00:37:56,123 AND RISKS WITH CURIOSITY AND 959 00:37:56,123 --> 00:37:57,124 PREVIOUS MISSIONS. 960 00:37:57,124 --> 00:38:00,261 EVERYONE WAS KEYED UP FOR 961 00:38:00,261 --> 00:38:04,665 CURIOSITY LANDING IN 2012 AND 962 00:38:04,665 --> 00:38:07,535 THE SKY CRANE WAS NEW. 963 00:38:07,535 --> 00:38:10,204 GIVEN YOUR ASSESSMENT OF THE 964 00:38:10,204 --> 00:38:12,707 RISKS AND COMPLEXITY COMPARED TO 965 00:38:12,707 --> 00:38:14,742 PRIOR NASA ROVERS. 966 00:38:14,742 --> 00:38:15,609 THANKS. 967 00:38:15,609 --> 00:38:16,043 >> SURE. 968 00:38:16,043 --> 00:38:18,412 FROM A COMPLEXITY PERSPECTIVE IT 969 00:38:18,412 --> 00:38:21,115 IS A MORE SOPHISTICATED VEHICLE. 970 00:38:21,115 --> 00:38:24,151 WE ARE CARRYING 50% MORE SURFACE 971 00:38:24,151 --> 00:38:26,654 PAY LOAD THAN CURIOSITY DID. 972 00:38:26,654 --> 00:38:28,756 THAT WAS, BY FAR, THE MOST 973 00:38:28,756 --> 00:38:30,725 COMPLEX THING WE HAD DONE UP 974 00:38:30,725 --> 00:38:31,692 UNTIL THAT TIME. 975 00:38:31,692 --> 00:38:33,995 WE ARE TAKING THIS A STEP 976 00:38:33,995 --> 00:38:34,328 FURTHER. 977 00:38:34,328 --> 00:38:36,330 THE SAMPLING SYSTEM WE HAVE ON 978 00:38:36,330 --> 00:38:39,033 THIS VEHICLE BECAUSE WE ARE 979 00:38:39,033 --> 00:38:40,868 COLLECTING ROCKS AND SOIL 980 00:38:40,868 --> 00:38:42,470 SAMPLES THAT WE ULTIMATELY WANT 981 00:38:42,470 --> 00:38:44,805 TO BRING BACK TO THE EARTH AND 982 00:38:44,805 --> 00:38:48,542 LOOK FOR REALLY TRACE CHEMICAL 983 00:38:48,542 --> 00:38:49,510 SIGNATURES FROM BILLIONS OF 984 00:38:49,510 --> 00:38:53,080 YEARS AGO, YOU KNOW, VERY FAINT 985 00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:54,115 SIGNATURES, THE SYSTEM THAT WE 986 00:38:54,115 --> 00:38:56,250 USE TO COLLECT THOSE SAMPLES HAS 987 00:38:56,250 --> 00:38:58,719 TO BE IMMENSELY CLEAN. 988 00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:01,288 AND SO WE HAD TO STERILIZE IT 989 00:39:01,288 --> 00:39:04,025 AND CLEAN IT FROM AN ORGANICS 990 00:39:04,025 --> 00:39:05,426 AND CHEMICAL PERSPECTIVE AND 991 00:39:05,426 --> 00:39:06,794 KEEP IT THAT WAY FROM THE REST 992 00:39:06,794 --> 00:39:08,596 OF THE SYSTEMS THAT WE HAD TO 993 00:39:08,596 --> 00:39:12,767 USE TO GET THE SYSTEM TO MARS. 994 00:39:12,767 --> 00:39:16,570 THAT WAS FROM A COMPLEXITY 995 00:39:16,570 --> 00:39:19,173 PERSPECTIVE REALLY ANOTHER STEP 996 00:39:19,173 --> 00:39:23,377 BEYOND WHAT WE DID ON CURIOSITY. 997 00:39:23,377 --> 00:39:25,613 YOU KNOW, FROM A RISK 998 00:39:25,613 --> 00:39:29,050 PERSPECTIVE I THINK ONE -- STILL 999 00:39:29,050 --> 00:39:31,519 THE HIGHEST RISK PORTION OF ALL 1000 00:39:31,519 --> 00:39:33,154 THE MISSIONS IS THE LANDING 1001 00:39:33,154 --> 00:39:33,521 PROCESS. 1002 00:39:33,521 --> 00:39:35,689 YOU KNOW, YOU MENTIONED THE 1003 00:39:35,689 --> 00:39:36,657 7 MINUTES OF TERROR, THERE IS 1004 00:39:36,657 --> 00:39:38,726 NOTHING WE CAN DO. 1005 00:39:38,726 --> 00:39:45,299 WE HIT, WE CALL IT DO EDL, DO 1006 00:39:45,299 --> 00:39:47,401 ENTRY, DESCENT AND LANDING. 1007 00:39:47,401 --> 00:39:49,403 WE SEND A MESSAGE THAT SAYS THAT 1008 00:39:49,403 --> 00:39:51,205 AND THE SPACECRAFT ON ITS OWN 1009 00:39:51,205 --> 00:39:55,276 HAS TO GET FROM OUTSIDE THE 1010 00:39:55,276 --> 00:39:56,744 PLANET MOVING AT 12,000 MILES 1011 00:39:56,744 --> 00:39:58,212 PER HOUR ALL THE WAY DOWN SAFELY 1012 00:39:58,212 --> 00:40:01,649 TO THE SURFACE WITHOUT ANY HUMAN 1013 00:40:01,649 --> 00:40:02,083 INTERACTION. 1014 00:40:02,083 --> 00:40:04,885 AND IT'S BASICALLY A CONTROLLED 1015 00:40:04,885 --> 00:40:06,120 DISASSEMBLY THE WHOLE WAY. 1016 00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:10,191 IT IS BY FAR THE MOST COMPLEX OR 1017 00:40:10,191 --> 00:40:12,660 THE MOST, THE HIGHEST RISK 1018 00:40:12,660 --> 00:40:14,295 PORTION PHASE OF THE MISSION 1019 00:40:14,295 --> 00:40:15,996 STILL. 1020 00:40:15,996 --> 00:40:18,466 WE HAD THE GOOD FORTUNE ON 1021 00:40:18,466 --> 00:40:20,601 2020 TO HAVE LEVERAGE THE SYSTEM 1022 00:40:20,601 --> 00:40:24,038 THAT WE DESIGNED ON CURIOSITY. 1023 00:40:24,038 --> 00:40:26,340 SO NOT ONLY DO WE HAVE ALL THE 1024 00:40:26,340 --> 00:40:27,541 TESTING BEHIND US ON THIS SYSTEM 1025 00:40:27,541 --> 00:40:29,009 THAT WE DID BEFORE WE LAUNCHED 1026 00:40:29,009 --> 00:40:31,412 AND LANDED CURIOSITY, WE HAVE 1027 00:40:31,412 --> 00:40:33,380 THE CURIOSITY FLIGHT ITSELF AND 1028 00:40:33,380 --> 00:40:35,015 THE TELEEM TREE THAT CAME BACK 1029 00:40:35,015 --> 00:40:37,118 AND IT PERFORMED WELL DURING 1030 00:40:37,118 --> 00:40:38,419 THAT MISSION. 1031 00:40:38,419 --> 00:40:42,590 AND WE DID ADDITIONAL TESTING TO 1032 00:40:42,590 --> 00:40:45,259 LAUNCH THIS SPACECRAFT. 1033 00:40:45,259 --> 00:40:47,928 STILL NO GUARANTEES, YOU KNOW. 1034 00:40:47,928 --> 00:40:50,397 OUR HEARTS WILL STILL BE BEATING 1035 00:40:50,397 --> 00:40:52,032 HARD WHEN WE GET TO THAT POINT 1036 00:40:52,032 --> 00:40:52,833 OF THE MISSION. 1037 00:40:52,833 --> 00:40:55,536 I DO THINK IT IS AN ADVANTAGE 1038 00:40:55,536 --> 00:40:56,637 THAT WE HAVE. 1039 00:40:56,637 --> 00:40:58,806 THIS IS NOT A FIRST TIME LANDING 1040 00:40:58,806 --> 00:41:04,311 SYSTEM, AS WE HAD ON CURIOSITY. 1041 00:41:04,311 --> 00:41:06,013 [INAUDIBLE] 1042 00:41:06,013 --> 00:41:08,282 >> IF WE LANDED WITH THE 1043 00:41:08,282 --> 00:41:10,618 CURIOSITY SYSTEM AS IT IS WE 1044 00:41:10,618 --> 00:41:12,353 WOULDN'T GO WHERE WE ARE, RIGHT? 1045 00:41:12,353 --> 00:41:14,555 >> I MENTIONED BRIEFLY BEFORE 1046 00:41:14,555 --> 00:41:16,123 FOR THE FIRST TIME WE ARE GOING 1047 00:41:16,123 --> 00:41:23,497 TO USE A HAZARD AVOIDOUS SYSTEM, 1048 00:41:23,497 --> 00:41:24,798 AUTONOMOUS AVOIDANCE SYSTEM. 1049 00:41:24,798 --> 00:41:27,535 IT WILL ALLOWITOUS GO TO THE 1050 00:41:27,535 --> 00:41:29,737 CRATER, AN INTERESTING 1051 00:41:29,737 --> 00:41:30,504 SCIENTIFIC SITE. 1052 00:41:30,504 --> 00:41:34,208 IT HAS ROCKS AND ESCARPMENTS AND 1053 00:41:34,208 --> 00:41:36,210 SAND DUNES AND VARIATION IN 1054 00:41:36,210 --> 00:41:39,346 TERRAIN AND IS WONDERFUL FOR 1055 00:41:39,346 --> 00:41:39,747 SCIENTISTS. 1056 00:41:39,747 --> 00:41:41,982 BUT THEY ALL REPRESENT LANDING 1057 00:41:41,982 --> 00:41:44,818 HAZARDS FOR US. 1058 00:41:44,818 --> 00:41:48,222 TO GET TO A SCIENTIFICALLY 1059 00:41:48,222 --> 00:41:51,392 VALUABLE SITE WE HAD TO DEVELOP 1060 00:41:51,392 --> 00:41:54,361 A NEW HAZARD AVOIDANCE SYSTEM 1061 00:41:54,361 --> 00:41:56,530 AND WE ARE FLYING THAT. 1062 00:41:56,530 --> 00:41:59,667 IT'S A SYSTEM THAT ESSENTIALLY 1063 00:41:59,667 --> 00:42:02,670 USES ORBITAL IMAGERY FROM OUR 1064 00:42:02,670 --> 00:42:04,038 OTHER SPACECRAFT. 1065 00:42:04,038 --> 00:42:06,373 WE IDENTIFY HAZARDS ON THE 1066 00:42:06,373 --> 00:42:06,740 SURFACE. 1067 00:42:06,740 --> 00:42:08,676 WE MARK THE HAZARDS ON A MAP AND 1068 00:42:08,676 --> 00:42:11,212 LOAD THAT MAP ON TO THE 1069 00:42:11,212 --> 00:42:11,612 SPACECRAFT. 1070 00:42:11,612 --> 00:42:13,280 AS WE ARE COMING DOWN GETTING 1071 00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:14,915 CLOSE TO THE PLANET WE TAKE 1072 00:42:14,915 --> 00:42:18,586 A PICTURE AND FIND OURSELVES IN 1073 00:42:18,586 --> 00:42:20,387 THE HAZARD MAP THAT WE HAVE ON 1074 00:42:20,387 --> 00:42:22,656 BOARD AND THEN WE DIVERT AWAY 1075 00:42:22,656 --> 00:42:24,291 FROM THE MOST SIGNIFICANT 1076 00:42:24,291 --> 00:42:25,726 HAZARDS TO THE SPACECRAFT. 1077 00:42:25,726 --> 00:42:28,028 AND SO IT DOES SIGNIFICANTLY 1078 00:42:28,028 --> 00:42:29,897 IMPROVE OUR PROBABILITY OF 1079 00:42:29,897 --> 00:42:31,765 LANDING IN A SAFE WAY, 1080 00:42:31,765 --> 00:42:33,834 PARTICULARLY IN ROUGH TERRAIN. 1081 00:42:33,834 --> 00:42:36,337 THIS IS A SYSTEM THAT WE HAVE 1082 00:42:36,337 --> 00:42:38,906 TESTED EXTENSIVELY, THOMAS IN 1083 00:42:38,906 --> 00:42:42,109 PARTICULAR WANTED TO MAKE SURE 1084 00:42:42,109 --> 00:42:47,514 THAT WE HAD ALL OF THE NECESSARY 1085 00:42:47,514 --> 00:42:49,850 CHECKS AND BALANCES AND RIGOROUS 1086 00:42:49,850 --> 00:42:51,885 REVIEWS IN LACE FOR THIS 1087 00:42:51,885 --> 00:42:53,854 SYSTEM -- IN PLACE FOR THIS 1088 00:42:53,854 --> 00:42:55,723 SYSTEM BEFORE WE SELECTED THE 1089 00:42:55,723 --> 00:42:57,324 FINAL DESTINATION. 1090 00:42:57,324 --> 00:42:59,727 WE HAVE EXERCISED THE SYSTEM OUT 1091 00:42:59,727 --> 00:43:02,863 IN THE DESERT WITH SIMULATED 1092 00:43:02,863 --> 00:43:04,598 LANDINGS AND COMPUTER 1093 00:43:04,598 --> 00:43:07,067 SIMULATIONS AND IT JUST WORKS 1094 00:43:07,067 --> 00:43:07,534 EXTREMELY WELL. 1095 00:43:07,534 --> 00:43:09,670 IT IS A POWERFUL AND ROBUST 1096 00:43:09,670 --> 00:43:10,904 SYSTEM AND WE HAVE A LOT OF 1097 00:43:10,904 --> 00:43:11,305 CONFIDENCE. 1098 00:43:11,305 --> 00:43:12,273 >> THANK YOU. 1099 00:43:12,273 --> 00:43:15,542 OUR NEXT QUESTION FROM JACKIE 1100 00:43:15,542 --> 00:43:20,147 GODDARD OF THE TIMES OF LONDON. 1101 00:43:20,147 --> 00:43:20,581 >> HELLO. 1102 00:43:20,581 --> 00:43:23,317 MAYBE THIS QUESTION IS FOR MATT. 1103 00:43:23,317 --> 00:43:27,988 I THINK THE AUDIO IS AN 1104 00:43:27,988 --> 00:43:29,189 INTERESTING EXTRA ON THIS 1105 00:43:29,189 --> 00:43:29,523 MISSION. 1106 00:43:29,523 --> 00:43:31,525 WHAT IS THE SCIENTIFIC 1107 00:43:31,525 --> 00:43:33,193 SIGNIFICANCE OF ADDING THIS 1108 00:43:33,193 --> 00:43:35,362 EXTRA SENSORY DIAMERICANIZATION 1109 00:43:35,362 --> 00:43:41,335 DIMENSION TO THESYSTEM? 1110 00:43:41,335 --> 00:43:42,303 WHEN DOES IT KICK IN? 1111 00:43:42,303 --> 00:43:45,072 >> WE'LL TURN ON THE MICROPHONE 1112 00:43:45,072 --> 00:43:46,840 EARLY IN THE PROCESS BEFORE WE 1113 00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:48,575 DEPLOY THE PARACHUTE AND SHOULD 1114 00:43:48,575 --> 00:43:52,946 BE ABLE TO HEAR SOME OF THE 1115 00:43:52,946 --> 00:43:58,585 SPACECRAFT PYROTECHNIC EVENTS 1116 00:43:58,585 --> 00:44:02,856 AND THE ATMOSPHERE AT SOME LEVEL 1117 00:44:02,856 --> 00:44:04,958 INTERACTING WITH THE SPACECRAFT 1118 00:44:04,958 --> 00:44:05,292 ITSELF. 1119 00:44:05,292 --> 00:44:07,561 SO WE TURN IT ON PRETTY EARLY IN 1120 00:44:07,561 --> 00:44:09,630 THE ENTRY, DESCENT AND LANDING 1121 00:44:09,630 --> 00:44:10,030 SYSTEM. 1122 00:44:10,030 --> 00:44:13,667 THE MICROPHONE WE EXPECT TO 1123 00:44:13,667 --> 00:44:14,501 SURVIVE LANDING AND TO BE USABLE 1124 00:44:14,501 --> 00:44:16,303 ON THE SURFACE. 1125 00:44:16,303 --> 00:44:18,305 WE HAVE TWO MICROPHONES, I'M 1126 00:44:18,305 --> 00:44:22,142 TALKING ABOUT A GENERAL 1127 00:44:22,142 --> 00:44:23,510 ENGINEERING MICROPHONE NOW. 1128 00:44:23,510 --> 00:44:25,412 WE DO THINK THAT MICROPHONE WILL 1129 00:44:25,412 --> 00:44:30,584 BE ABLE TO HEAR OUR BIG ROTARY 1130 00:44:30,584 --> 00:44:31,919 PERCUSSIVE DRILL ON THE END OF 1131 00:44:31,919 --> 00:44:34,621 THE ROBOT ARM AS IT JACKHAMMERS 1132 00:44:34,621 --> 00:44:37,358 ITS WAY INTO ROCKS AS WELL AS 1133 00:44:37,358 --> 00:44:39,393 THE WHEELS CRUNCHING OVER THE 1134 00:44:39,393 --> 00:44:40,294 SURFACE OF MARS. 1135 00:44:40,294 --> 00:44:42,830 WE THINK WE'LL BE ABLE TO HEAR 1136 00:44:42,830 --> 00:44:43,464 THOSE THINGS. 1137 00:44:43,464 --> 00:44:47,935 FROM AN ENGINEERING DIAGNOSTIC 1138 00:44:47,935 --> 00:44:49,603 PERSPECTIVE WE ARE NOT QUITE 1139 00:44:49,603 --> 00:44:51,672 SURE HOW IT WILL HELP US. 1140 00:44:51,672 --> 00:44:53,006 THAT IS SOMETHING WE'LL HAVE TO 1141 00:44:53,006 --> 00:44:54,174 UNDERSTAND AS WE GET EXPERIENCE 1142 00:44:54,174 --> 00:44:54,808 WITH IT. 1143 00:44:54,808 --> 00:44:58,011 THERE IS A SECOND MICROPHONE 1144 00:44:58,011 --> 00:44:59,980 MOUNTED ON THE TOP OF THE MAST 1145 00:44:59,980 --> 00:45:02,616 AASSOCIATINGED WITH ONE OF OUR 1146 00:45:02,616 --> 00:45:03,016 INSTRUMENTS. 1147 00:45:03,016 --> 00:45:06,553 THE INSTRUMENT IS CALLED SUPER 1148 00:45:06,553 --> 00:45:06,820 CAM. 1149 00:45:06,820 --> 00:45:11,358 IT IS A LASER SPECHTROMETER AND 1150 00:45:11,358 --> 00:45:13,761 FIRES A LASER AND CREATES 1151 00:45:13,761 --> 00:45:15,396 A PLASMA CLOUD WITH THE ROCKS 1152 00:45:15,396 --> 00:45:19,333 AND DUST IT INTERACTS WITH. 1153 00:45:19,333 --> 00:45:21,869 WHEN WE FIRE THIS IN OUR TEST 1154 00:45:21,869 --> 00:45:23,437 BEDS YOU CAN HEAR A POP. 1155 00:45:23,437 --> 00:45:25,973 YOU CAN HEAR THE ZAP ALMOST. 1156 00:45:25,973 --> 00:45:27,941 THE SCIENCE COMMUNITY IS HOPING 1157 00:45:27,941 --> 00:45:31,278 WITH THAT TARGETED MICROPHONE ON 1158 00:45:31,278 --> 00:45:35,649 TOP OF THE MAST THEY WILL LEARN 1159 00:45:35,649 --> 00:45:38,986 SOMETHING ABOUT THE COMPOSITION 1160 00:45:38,986 --> 00:45:42,423 OF THE THINGS THE LACEAR IS 1161 00:45:42,423 --> 00:45:45,325 INTERACTING -- LASER IS 1162 00:45:45,325 --> 00:45:47,728 INTERACTING W. IT'S A BIT OF AN 1163 00:45:47,728 --> 00:45:48,128 EXPERIMENT. 1164 00:45:48,128 --> 00:45:49,229 WE HAVEN'T DONE THIS BEFORE. 1165 00:45:49,229 --> 00:45:50,531 IT'S THE FIRST TIME WE HAVE 1166 00:45:50,531 --> 00:45:51,932 TAKEN THIS HUMAN SENTENCE TO 1167 00:45:51,932 --> 00:45:54,968 MARS AND EXER -- SENSE TO MARKED 1168 00:45:54,968 --> 00:45:56,303 AND EXERCISED IT. 1169 00:45:56,303 --> 00:45:57,438 WE'LL LEARN AS WE GO. 1170 00:45:57,438 --> 00:45:58,272 >> THANK YOU. 1171 00:45:58,272 --> 00:45:58,705 >> SURE. 1172 00:45:58,705 --> 00:45:59,206 >> THANK YOU. 1173 00:45:59,206 --> 00:46:05,078 OUR NEXT QUESTION COMES FROM 1174 00:46:05,078 --> 00:46:05,379 IRENE. 1175 00:46:05,379 --> 00:46:08,749 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 1176 00:46:08,749 --> 00:46:12,386 HAS THE REPOSITIONING OF THE 1177 00:46:12,386 --> 00:46:14,988 NASA THREE MARS ORBITERS BEGUN 1178 00:46:14,988 --> 00:46:18,959 TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE, I GUESS, 1179 00:46:18,959 --> 00:46:21,462 IT'S REAL TIME AS POSSIBLE FOR 1180 00:46:21,462 --> 00:46:24,998 THE ENTRY, DESCENT AND LANDING? 1181 00:46:24,998 --> 00:46:26,467 >> I'M NOT QUITE SURE I HEARD 1182 00:46:26,467 --> 00:46:28,368 THE ENTIRE QUESTION BUT IT'S 1183 00:46:28,368 --> 00:46:31,472 RELATEED TO THE NASA ORBITERS 1184 00:46:31,472 --> 00:46:33,574 AND THEIR SUPPORT ROLE IN ENTRY, 1185 00:46:33,574 --> 00:46:35,476 DESCENT AND LANDING? 1186 00:46:35,476 --> 00:46:35,876 >> YEAH. 1187 00:46:35,876 --> 00:46:37,978 IF THAT REPOSITIONING IF ANY HAS 1188 00:46:37,978 --> 00:46:39,313 ALREADY STARTED OR WHEN YOU 1189 00:46:39,313 --> 00:46:41,715 EXPECT TO DO THAT AND WHICH 1190 00:46:41,715 --> 00:46:43,317 ORBITERS WILL BE USED. 1191 00:46:43,317 --> 00:46:45,752 >> WE ARE PRIMARILY GOING TO USE 1192 00:46:45,752 --> 00:46:51,325 THE MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER, 1193 00:46:51,325 --> 00:46:51,625 MRO. 1194 00:46:51,625 --> 00:46:55,596 AND IT HAS A MINOR AMOUNT OF 1195 00:46:55,596 --> 00:46:57,030 REPOSITIONING AS YOU MENTIONED, 1196 00:46:57,030 --> 00:47:01,168 THAT WILL BE REQUIRED SO IT IS 1197 00:47:01,168 --> 00:47:03,637 EXACTLY OVERHEAD OF THE CRATER. 1198 00:47:03,637 --> 00:47:05,339 I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT HAS 1199 00:47:05,339 --> 00:47:07,241 STARTED YET. 1200 00:47:07,241 --> 00:47:09,176 WE HAVE PLENTY EVER TIME TO GET 1201 00:47:09,176 --> 00:47:14,147 THAT DONE BEFORE WE LAND. 1202 00:47:14,147 --> 00:47:16,717 >> THANK YOU. 1203 00:47:16,717 --> 00:47:18,252 >> WE'LL TAKE A QUESTION FROM 1204 00:47:18,252 --> 00:47:19,553 SOCIAL MEDIA. 1205 00:47:19,553 --> 00:47:24,491 [INAUDIBLE] 1206 00:47:24,491 --> 00:47:27,361 WHAT SORT OF DATA WOULD 1207 00:47:27,361 --> 00:47:29,730 PERSEVERANCE GATHER OFF THE MARS 1208 00:47:29,730 --> 00:47:30,664 SURFACE? 1209 00:47:30,664 --> 00:47:36,937 [INAUDIBLE] 1210 00:47:36,937 --> 00:47:41,208 >> WE TALKED A LOT ABOUT THE 1211 00:47:41,208 --> 00:47:44,645 SCIENCE MISSION OF THE PROJECT. 1212 00:47:44,645 --> 00:47:50,617 YOU KNOW, THOMAS YOU WANT TO? 1213 00:47:50,617 --> 00:47:52,152 >> THAT'S WHY WE ARE GOING 1214 00:47:52,152 --> 00:47:52,452 THERE. 1215 00:47:52,452 --> 00:47:54,321 THE OTHER THING I WANT TO SAY, 1216 00:47:54,321 --> 00:47:55,989 A SHOW RIGHT AFTER THIS REALLY 1217 00:47:55,989 --> 00:47:58,592 FOCUSED ON SCIENCE AND IF YOU 1218 00:47:58,592 --> 00:48:00,994 LOOK BACK FROM LOOK AT THE DATA 1219 00:48:00,994 --> 00:48:03,030 WE ARE GOING TO GATHER, WE 1220 00:48:03,030 --> 00:48:07,935 TALKED ABOUT THE WEATHER 1221 00:48:07,935 --> 00:48:10,370 INSTRUMENT AND A WEATHER 1222 00:48:10,370 --> 00:48:11,505 STATIONS RIGHT THERE IN THE 1223 00:48:11,505 --> 00:48:11,838 CRATER. 1224 00:48:11,838 --> 00:48:14,541 YOU GO LOOK AT THAT CAMERAS AND 1225 00:48:14,541 --> 00:48:18,745 THERE ARE NUMEROUS CAMERAS. 1226 00:48:18,745 --> 00:48:21,014 TALKED ABOUT SUPER CAM. 1227 00:48:21,014 --> 00:48:22,849 THERE IS A CAMERA WITH A FIELD 1228 00:48:22,849 --> 00:48:27,888 OF VIEW AND RESOLUTION QUITE 1229 00:48:27,888 --> 00:48:28,355 UNPRECEDENTED. 1230 00:48:28,355 --> 00:48:30,791 THE INSTRUMENTS LOOKING AT 1231 00:48:30,791 --> 00:48:31,191 COMPOSITION. 1232 00:48:31,191 --> 00:48:33,293 SOME OF THEM REMOTELY, SOME OF 1233 00:48:33,293 --> 00:48:36,263 THEM BY LOOKING AT SAMPLES AND 1234 00:48:36,263 --> 00:48:38,498 EQUIPPING US TO GATHER THE RIGHT 1235 00:48:38,498 --> 00:48:40,601 SAMPLES TO ACTUALLY GATHER THEM 1236 00:48:40,601 --> 00:48:42,936 AND PUT THEM INTO THESE VERY 1237 00:48:42,936 --> 00:48:45,305 CLEAN SATCHEL TUBES TO BRING -- 1238 00:48:45,305 --> 00:48:46,740 SAMPLE TUBES TO BRING BACK. 1239 00:48:46,740 --> 00:48:49,109 EVERYTHING IS SET UP TO GET US 1240 00:48:49,109 --> 00:48:50,210 THE ULTIMATE DATA. 1241 00:48:50,210 --> 00:48:54,881 WE WANT TO GATHER SAMPLES, FOR 1242 00:48:54,881 --> 00:48:59,319 US THOSE OF THE MOST PRECIOUS 1243 00:48:59,319 --> 00:49:05,459 SAMPLES IN TERMS OF HUME AN HUMS 1244 00:49:05,459 --> 00:49:10,263 FAR AS ANSWERING NOT ONLY THE 1245 00:49:10,263 --> 00:49:11,698 SAMPLE ITSELF BUT THE CONTEXT IN 1246 00:49:11,698 --> 00:49:13,433 WHICH THE SAMPLE IS COLLECTED. 1247 00:49:13,433 --> 00:49:18,672 WE LEARN FROM GEOLOGY HERE AND 1248 00:49:18,672 --> 00:49:20,340 IMPORTANT ANALYSIS IN EVERY 1249 00:49:20,340 --> 00:49:24,144 ENVIRONMENT THAT IN FACT THAT IS 1250 00:49:24,144 --> 00:49:24,878 VERY IMPORTANT. 1251 00:49:24,878 --> 00:49:27,014 I WANT TO BLOCK THE SESSION 1252 00:49:27,014 --> 00:49:27,314 LATER. 1253 00:49:27,314 --> 00:49:31,985 WHAT DID I MISS? 1254 00:49:31,985 --> 00:49:32,586 >> YOU HIT MOST OF. 1255 00:49:32,586 --> 00:49:34,921 IT WE HAVE POWERFUL 1256 00:49:34,921 --> 00:49:36,623 SPECHTROMETERS AND BE ABLE TO 1257 00:49:36,623 --> 00:49:41,061 LOOK AT THE ROCK AND RESOLUTION 1258 00:49:41,061 --> 00:49:43,096 AND UNDERSTAND FROM SPOT TO SPOT 1259 00:49:43,096 --> 00:49:45,432 HOW THE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF 1260 00:49:45,432 --> 00:49:47,134 THE ROCK CHANGES. 1261 00:49:47,134 --> 00:49:50,303 WE HAVE SPECHTROMETERS ON TOP OF 1262 00:49:50,303 --> 00:49:51,938 THE MAST, THE SUPER CAM. 1263 00:49:51,938 --> 00:49:53,907 WE HAVE ZOOM CAMERAS UP THERE AS 1264 00:49:53,907 --> 00:49:54,207 WELL. 1265 00:49:54,207 --> 00:49:55,976 WE HAVE THE WEATHER STATION. 1266 00:49:55,976 --> 00:50:00,180 WE HAVE A SUBSURFACE RADAR 1267 00:50:00,180 --> 00:50:01,114 SOUNDER FOR THE FIRST TIME TO 1268 00:50:01,114 --> 00:50:04,785 HELP US UNDERSTAND THE GEOGRAPHY 1269 00:50:04,785 --> 00:50:07,754 OF THE LANDING SITE. 1270 00:50:07,754 --> 00:50:11,458 THAT IS THE NOREGIAN PROVIDED 1271 00:50:11,458 --> 00:50:13,260 RADAR I MENTIONED FROM BEFORE. 1272 00:50:13,260 --> 00:50:14,695 WE HAVE A POWERFUL SUITE OF 1273 00:50:14,695 --> 00:50:16,430 INSTRUMENTS TO HELP US DO WHAT 1274 00:50:16,430 --> 00:50:18,065 THOMAS SAID, WHICH IS FIND THE 1275 00:50:18,065 --> 00:50:20,400 RIGHT SAMPLES TO COLLECT. 1276 00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:23,537 WE CAN'T BRING BACK A LOT. 1277 00:50:23,537 --> 00:50:26,273 A LOT OF MATERIAL WHEN WE BRING 1278 00:50:26,273 --> 00:50:28,208 THE SAMPLES BACK, SO WE WANT TO 1279 00:50:28,208 --> 00:50:30,110 MAKE SURE WE GO TO THE RIGHT 1280 00:50:30,110 --> 00:50:31,745 SITE AND PICK THE RIGHT TARGETS 1281 00:50:31,745 --> 00:50:35,015 AND MAKE SURE WE UNDERSTAND THE 1282 00:50:35,015 --> 00:50:36,817 CONTEXT AND CHEMISTRY OF THE 1283 00:50:36,817 --> 00:50:40,620 TARGETS WHEN WE BRING THEM BACK. 1284 00:50:40,620 --> 00:50:42,255 >> WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT WHAT IS 1285 00:50:42,255 --> 00:50:44,725 THIS DATA COMING BACK. 1286 00:50:44,725 --> 00:50:49,229 YOU MENTIONED THE IDEA YOU CAN 1287 00:50:49,229 --> 00:50:51,298 SHOOT ENERGY INTO A MATERIAL, 1288 00:50:51,298 --> 00:50:55,168 THINK OF RADIO WAVES OR IN THIS 1289 00:50:55,168 --> 00:50:57,671 CASE LIGHT WAVES OR INFRARED 1290 00:50:57,671 --> 00:50:59,439 WAVES AND CERTAIN WAVE LENGTHS 1291 00:50:59,439 --> 00:51:01,108 BOUNCE BACK AND OTHER WAVE 1292 00:51:01,108 --> 00:51:02,375 LENGTHS ARE ABSORBED. 1293 00:51:02,375 --> 00:51:04,611 BASED ON THAT WE CAN MAKE 1294 00:51:04,611 --> 00:51:07,080 DETERMINATIONS AS TO THE 1295 00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:08,381 CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF THE 1296 00:51:08,381 --> 00:51:08,782 MATERIALS. 1297 00:51:08,782 --> 00:51:10,851 HERE ON EARTH WHAT WE HAVE BEEN 1298 00:51:10,851 --> 00:51:13,420 STUDYING IS THE CHEMICAL 1299 00:51:13,420 --> 00:51:14,855 COMPOSITION OF MATERIALS WHERE 1300 00:51:14,855 --> 00:51:18,625 WE KNOW THAT CHEMICAL 1301 00:51:18,625 --> 00:51:20,494 COMPOSITION WAS A RESULT OF 1302 00:51:20,494 --> 00:51:22,362 ANCIENT LIFE HERE ON EARTH. 1303 00:51:22,362 --> 00:51:23,764 WE ARE TAKING WHAT WE HAVE 1304 00:51:23,764 --> 00:51:25,832 LEARNED FROM OUR OWN PLANET AND 1305 00:51:25,832 --> 00:51:27,801 APPLYING IT TO ANOTHER PLANET TO 1306 00:51:27,801 --> 00:51:29,402 MAKE DETERMINATIONS AS TO 1307 00:51:29,402 --> 00:51:31,738 WHETHER OR NOT THERE WAS MAYBE 1308 00:51:31,738 --> 00:51:33,874 AT ONE TIME BIOLOGY. 1309 00:51:33,874 --> 00:51:38,512 WE ARE TALKING ABOUT MICROBIAL 1310 00:51:38,512 --> 00:51:40,013 ORGANISMS ON MARS. 1311 00:51:40,013 --> 00:51:41,648 AND ONCE WE MAKES THAT 1312 00:51:41,648 --> 00:51:45,952 DETERMINATION WE, NO KIDDING 1313 00:51:45,952 --> 00:51:47,154 CACHE A SAMPLE. 1314 00:51:47,154 --> 00:51:48,522 IF WE FEEL THERE IS HIGH 1315 00:51:48,522 --> 00:51:49,790 PROBABILITY THERE COULD BE LIFE 1316 00:51:49,790 --> 00:51:51,658 IN THAT PLACE, WE CACHE 1317 00:51:51,658 --> 00:51:52,959 A SATCHEL SO ONE DAY FOUR YEARS 1318 00:51:52,959 --> 00:51:56,163 FROM NOW OR I SHOULD SAY 2026, 1319 00:51:56,163 --> 00:51:58,532 SIX YEARS FROM NOW, WE CAN BRING 1320 00:51:58,532 --> 00:52:00,901 IT BACK TO EARTH AND STUDY IT 1321 00:52:00,901 --> 00:52:05,539 AND ACTUALLY MAKE A NO KIDDING 1322 00:52:05,539 --> 00:52:06,206 DETERMINATION WHETHER OR NOT 1323 00:52:06,206 --> 00:52:07,541 HUMANS OR I SHOULD SAY EARTH IS 1324 00:52:07,541 --> 00:52:10,043 THE ONLY PLACE IN OUR OWN SOLAR 1325 00:52:10,043 --> 00:52:12,212 SYSTEM THAT HAS THE CAPEABILITY 1326 00:52:12,212 --> 00:52:13,480 OF HOSTING LIFE. 1327 00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:15,382 THAT IS, I THINK, ONE OF THE 1328 00:52:15,382 --> 00:52:17,918 MOST EXCITING THINGS ABOUT THIS 1329 00:52:17,918 --> 00:52:18,285 MISSION. 1330 00:52:18,285 --> 00:52:20,854 >> THANK YOU ALL. 1331 00:52:20,854 --> 00:52:23,924 IN MANY WAYS YOU HAVE ASKED THE 1332 00:52:23,924 --> 00:52:25,225 NEXT QUESTION. 1333 00:52:25,225 --> 00:52:27,627 WHY DO WE NEED ANOTHER ROVER 1334 00:52:27,627 --> 00:52:27,961 THERE? 1335 00:52:27,961 --> 00:52:29,729 WHAT MORE CAN WE LEARN FROM 1336 00:52:29,729 --> 00:52:30,030 MARS? 1337 00:52:30,030 --> 00:52:33,967 >> THERE IS A LOT. 1338 00:52:33,967 --> 00:52:36,803 >> WHAT IS REALLY INTERESTING IS 1339 00:52:36,803 --> 00:52:39,105 EVERY TIME WE BUILD A ROVER AND 1340 00:52:39,105 --> 00:52:42,075 WE SEND IT THERE, WE TAKE 1341 00:52:42,075 --> 00:52:44,477 A NUMBER OF QUESTIONS WE HAVE. 1342 00:52:44,477 --> 00:52:46,546 SPIR AND IT OPPORTUNITY WE 1343 00:52:46,546 --> 00:52:47,881 TALKED -- SPIRIT AND 1344 00:52:47,881 --> 00:52:49,082 OPPORTUNITY, QUESTIONS ABOUT 1345 00:52:49,082 --> 00:52:49,416 WATER. 1346 00:52:49,416 --> 00:52:52,485 THE HISTORY OF WATER AT THE 1347 00:52:52,485 --> 00:52:52,886 SURFACE. 1348 00:52:52,886 --> 00:52:53,720 MARS. 1349 00:52:53,720 --> 00:53:03,363 THE ENTIRE INSTRUMENT COMP COMPT 1350 00:53:03,363 --> 00:53:04,698 IS LAID OUT FOR THAT. 1351 00:53:04,698 --> 00:53:05,966 AND QUESTIONS THAT ARE OPEN AND 1352 00:53:05,966 --> 00:53:07,667 WHAT WE ARE LEARNING FROM 1353 00:53:07,667 --> 00:53:09,836 CURIOSITY THERE ARE SURPRISES 1354 00:53:09,836 --> 00:53:12,138 EVEN TODAY AT THE LEVEL OF 1355 00:53:12,138 --> 00:53:13,807 COMPLEXITY IN SOME OF THE 1356 00:53:13,807 --> 00:53:15,008 ORGANICS IS MUCH HIGHER. 1357 00:53:15,008 --> 00:53:17,744 IT TURNS OUT THE WORLDCOM PLEXI 1358 00:53:17,744 --> 00:53:20,146 MEANS THE MORE COMPLEX THE MORE 1359 00:53:20,146 --> 00:53:24,417 LIFE, THE MORE LIKELIHOOD OF 1360 00:53:24,417 --> 00:53:26,086 LIFE. 1361 00:53:26,086 --> 00:53:34,361 SO NOW WHAT -- PERSEVERANCE THAT 1362 00:53:34,361 --> 00:53:35,762 HAD AT THE CORE OF ITS MISSION 1363 00:53:35,762 --> 00:53:39,766 THE QUESTION ABOUT LIFE, 1364 00:53:39,766 --> 00:53:40,867 ASTRO-BIOLOGY, AND THE 1365 00:53:40,867 --> 00:53:41,902 INSTRUMENTS ARE VERY DIFFERENT 1366 00:53:41,902 --> 00:53:43,169 FOR THAT. 1367 00:53:43,169 --> 00:53:45,939 I WOULD ARGUE IT IS VERY HARD TO 1368 00:53:45,939 --> 00:53:49,075 IMAGINE COMING UP WITH THAT 1369 00:53:49,075 --> 00:53:50,510 INSTRUMENT COMPLIMENT IN THAT 1370 00:53:50,510 --> 00:53:51,745 LOCATION WITHOUT THE OTHER 1371 00:53:51,745 --> 00:53:53,513 INSIGHTS WE GOT FROM THE OTHER 1372 00:53:53,513 --> 00:53:55,448 MISSIONS BEFORE, THE ONES I 1373 00:53:55,448 --> 00:53:58,418 MENTIONED AS WELL AS OTHERS. 1374 00:53:58,418 --> 00:54:01,354 FOR US IT IS VERY DIFFERENT. 1375 00:54:01,354 --> 00:54:03,556 IN SCIENCE WHEN YOU PEEL BACK 1376 00:54:03,556 --> 00:54:06,960 A LAYER IT'S NOT LIKE AN ONION 1377 00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:09,129 WHERE THE LAYER COMES FROM BELOW 1378 00:54:09,129 --> 00:54:10,664 LOOKS LIKE THE LAYER ABOVE. 1379 00:54:10,664 --> 00:54:12,866 IT IS A DIFFERENT SET OF 1380 00:54:12,866 --> 00:54:19,973 QUESTIONS THAT ARE THERE. 1381 00:54:19,973 --> 00:54:22,475 IT IS QUESTIONS HUMANS HAVE 1382 00:54:22,475 --> 00:54:24,811 ASKED AND ARE ANSWERING FOR THE 1383 00:54:24,811 --> 00:54:26,947 FIRST TIME WITH THE TOOLS OF 1384 00:54:26,947 --> 00:54:27,948 SCIENCE FOR THE BEST CHO 1385 00:54:27,948 --> 00:54:28,448 SEUNG-HUI CAN. 1386 00:54:28,448 --> 00:54:32,018 FOR ME -- THE BEST WAY WE CAN. 1387 00:54:32,018 --> 00:54:35,488 IT'S A QUESTION, OLD QUESTION. 1388 00:54:35,488 --> 00:54:38,558 READ OLD PHILOSOPHERS OF THE 1389 00:54:38,558 --> 00:54:38,858 PAST. 1390 00:54:38,858 --> 00:54:40,727 PEOPLE HAVE ASKED THOSE 1391 00:54:40,727 --> 00:54:42,162 QUESTIONS AND WE ARE STARTING TO 1392 00:54:42,162 --> 00:54:43,229 ADDRESS IT WITH THE INSTRUMENTS 1393 00:54:43,229 --> 00:54:44,030 THAT ARE THERE. 1394 00:54:44,030 --> 00:54:46,399 THAT'S THE AMAZING PART OF IT. 1395 00:54:46,399 --> 00:54:47,701 >> WE WILL GO TO VERY LONG 1396 00:54:47,701 --> 00:54:50,637 QUESTION FROM OUR -- TO ANOTHER 1397 00:54:50,637 --> 00:54:52,105 QUESTION FROM OUR REPORTERS ON 1398 00:54:52,105 --> 00:54:53,740 THE LINE. 1399 00:54:53,740 --> 00:54:57,844 >> THANK YOU. 1400 00:54:57,844 --> 00:54:59,412 THIS IS FOR MATT. 1401 00:54:59,412 --> 00:55:02,449 YOU MENTIONED YOU HAD TO PULL 1402 00:55:02,449 --> 00:55:09,022 OFF A MAGIC TRICK IF INGENUITY 1403 00:55:09,022 --> 00:55:12,892 AND WHAT THE CHALLENGES WERE 1404 00:55:12,892 --> 00:55:14,761 POSED BY THE ADDITIONAL PAY 1405 00:55:14,761 --> 00:55:15,328 LOAD. 1406 00:55:15,328 --> 00:55:16,930 >> CAN I START THIS ONE IF IT'S 1407 00:55:16,930 --> 00:55:17,697 ALL RIGHT? 1408 00:55:17,697 --> 00:55:20,300 THIS IS PROBABLY MY FAULT, MATT. 1409 00:55:20,300 --> 00:55:23,303 I APOLOGIZE. 1410 00:55:23,303 --> 00:55:26,306 THOMAS BROUGHT THIS INTO THE 1411 00:55:26,306 --> 00:55:28,641 ADMINISTRATORS SUITE IN MY EARLY 1412 00:55:28,641 --> 00:55:30,844 DAYS AS BEING THE NASA 1413 00:55:30,844 --> 00:55:32,579 ADMINISTRATOR AND HE HAD THIS 1414 00:55:32,579 --> 00:55:37,183 HEY, WHAT IF WE WERE TO DO THIS? 1415 00:55:37,183 --> 00:55:40,020 I LOVERED IT AND TOLD THOMAS -- 1416 00:55:40,020 --> 00:55:43,189 I LOVED IT AND TOLD THOMAS 1417 00:55:43,189 --> 00:55:45,258 WHATEVER CAN YOU DO TO MAKE IT 1418 00:55:45,258 --> 00:55:46,292 HAPPEN, DO THAT. 1419 00:55:46,292 --> 00:55:47,794 HE BROUGHT IT TO AND YOU IT WAS 1420 00:55:47,794 --> 00:55:50,597 NOT EASY TO GET DONE. 1421 00:55:50,597 --> 00:55:55,335 I SENT A TWEET IT WASN'T CALLED 1422 00:55:55,335 --> 00:55:56,536 INGENUITY AT THE TIME IT WAS THE 1423 00:55:56,536 --> 00:55:57,470 MARS HELICOPTER. 1424 00:55:57,470 --> 00:56:00,273 I SENT A TWEET AT 5:00 FRIDAY 1425 00:56:00,273 --> 00:56:01,307 AFTERNOON AND I DIDN'T HAVE 1426 00:56:01,307 --> 00:56:03,977 A LOT OF TWITTER FOLLOWERS AND 1427 00:56:03,977 --> 00:56:06,179 WITHIN AN HOUR OR TWO THERE ARE 1428 00:56:06,179 --> 00:56:07,814 5,000 RETWEETS AND IT JUST 1429 00:56:07,814 --> 00:56:10,550 CAUGHT FIRE AND ALL THE MEDIA 1430 00:56:10,550 --> 00:56:12,752 STARTED COVERING. 1431 00:56:12,752 --> 00:56:15,522 IT WAS A VERY EXCITING MOMENT. 1432 00:56:15,522 --> 00:56:17,123 IT WAS VERY DIFFICULT AND I WANT 1433 00:56:17,123 --> 00:56:19,392 YOU TO KNOW I APPRECIATE ALL THE 1434 00:56:19,392 --> 00:56:20,293 WORK YOU HAVE DONE. 1435 00:56:20,293 --> 00:56:22,362 >> I WILL SAY I REMEMBER AN ALL 1436 00:56:22,362 --> 00:56:23,997 HANDS MEETING WHERE RIGHT AFTER 1437 00:56:23,997 --> 00:56:27,267 WE WERE ASKED TO ACCOMMODATE THE 1438 00:56:27,267 --> 00:56:29,135 HELICOPTER AND SOME OF THE 1439 00:56:29,135 --> 00:56:30,570 MANAGERS WERE SCRATCHING THEIR 1440 00:56:30,570 --> 00:56:32,639 HEADS AND WONDERING HOW WE WERE 1441 00:56:32,639 --> 00:56:33,840 GOING TO DO THIS. 1442 00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:35,575 I ASKED FOR A SHOW OF HANDS FROM 1443 00:56:35,575 --> 00:56:37,243 OUROIN TEAM WHO WOULD LIKE TO 1444 00:56:37,243 --> 00:56:39,212 SEE THE HELICOPTER ON THIS 1445 00:56:39,212 --> 00:56:39,646 MISSION? 1446 00:56:39,646 --> 00:56:41,514 PRETTY MUCH EVERY HAND WENT UP. 1447 00:56:41,514 --> 00:56:45,118 EVEN THE PEOPLE WHO HAD TO 1448 00:56:45,118 --> 00:56:46,686 FIGURE IT OUT WERE EXCITED BY 1449 00:56:46,686 --> 00:56:47,353 THE PROJECT. 1450 00:56:47,353 --> 00:56:48,488 IT WAS DIFFICULT. 1451 00:56:48,488 --> 00:56:50,824 IT IS A VERY, VERY UNUSUAL PAY 1452 00:56:50,824 --> 00:56:51,157 LOAD. 1453 00:56:51,157 --> 00:56:54,494 IT IS VERY LIGHT WEIGHT BECAUSE 1454 00:56:54,494 --> 00:56:58,264 IT HAS TO FLY IN A VERY LOW 1455 00:56:58,264 --> 00:56:58,698 DENSITY AIR. 1456 00:56:58,698 --> 00:57:01,868 IT HAS BIG, STIFF, CARBON FIBER 1457 00:57:01,868 --> 00:57:03,703 BLADES THAT HAVE TO BE PROTECTED 1458 00:57:03,703 --> 00:57:09,309 FROM THE DEBRIS WE KICK UP. 1459 00:57:09,309 --> 00:57:11,678 IT HAS LEGS THAT IT HAS TO FOLD 1460 00:57:11,678 --> 00:57:15,415 UP AND HAVE TO BE DEPLOYED OUT. 1461 00:57:15,415 --> 00:57:18,618 AND, YOU KNOW, WE -- YOU KNOW, 1462 00:57:18,618 --> 00:57:20,086 ESSENTIALLY THE ROVER WAS FULL. 1463 00:57:20,086 --> 00:57:21,554 THE INSIDE OF THE VEHICLE WHERE 1464 00:57:21,554 --> 00:57:24,190 WE HAVE MOST OF OUR ELECTRONIC 1465 00:57:24,190 --> 00:57:26,493 SYSTEMS SO THAT WE CAN KEEP THEM 1466 00:57:26,493 --> 00:57:27,193 WARM WAS FULL. 1467 00:57:27,193 --> 00:57:30,096 THE TOP OF THE VEHICLE WAS 1468 00:57:30,096 --> 00:57:33,032 PRETTY MUCH OVER POPULATED 1469 00:57:33,032 --> 00:57:33,366 ALREADY. 1470 00:57:33,366 --> 00:57:36,769 SO WE HAD TO COME UP WITH A WAY 1471 00:57:36,769 --> 00:57:40,273 OF ACCOMMODATING IT AND WE 1472 00:57:40,273 --> 00:57:42,475 DECIDED TO PUT IT UP UNDER THE 1473 00:57:42,475 --> 00:57:43,376 BELLY OF THE VEHICLE. 1474 00:57:43,376 --> 00:57:48,948 THE BELLY PAN IS A SEPARATABLE 1475 00:57:48,948 --> 00:57:49,249 THING. 1476 00:57:49,249 --> 00:57:50,717 WE COULD TAKE IT OFF AND GIVE IT 1477 00:57:50,717 --> 00:57:54,320 TO THE TEAM AND THEY USED SOME 1478 00:57:54,320 --> 00:57:57,824 OF OUR EXISTING MOTORS AND 1479 00:57:57,824 --> 00:57:59,526 THINGS LIKE THAT. 1480 00:57:59,526 --> 00:58:03,663 WE HUNTED AROUND FOR AVAILABLE 1481 00:58:03,663 --> 00:58:05,632 SPARE PLATE HARDWARE TO DECIDE 1482 00:58:05,632 --> 00:58:07,600 HOW TO DO IT AND GET IT ON THE 1483 00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:08,968 VEHICLE IN A WAY THAT ONE KEPT 1484 00:58:08,968 --> 00:58:12,739 THE HELICOPTER SAFE AND TWO 1485 00:58:12,739 --> 00:58:16,342 ALLOWED US TO DEPLOY IT OFF THE 1486 00:58:16,342 --> 00:58:17,877 VEHICLE IN A WAY THAT IT 1487 00:58:17,877 --> 00:58:21,147 WOULDN'T REPRESENT A RISKER 1488 00:58:21,147 --> 00:58:24,217 THREAT -- RISK OR THREAT TO THE 1489 00:58:24,217 --> 00:58:24,584 MISSION. 1490 00:58:24,584 --> 00:58:28,154 THE OBJECTSIVE WAS DO NO HARM TO 1491 00:58:28,154 --> 00:58:29,155 THE PRIMARY MISSION. 1492 00:58:29,155 --> 00:58:32,559 THIS WAS AN EXPERIMENT. 1493 00:58:32,559 --> 00:58:34,627 OUR TEAM WAS OVER SUBSCRIBED 1494 00:58:34,627 --> 00:58:36,930 JUST WITH ENGINEERING CHALLENGES 1495 00:58:36,930 --> 00:58:38,298 OURSELVES, THE SAMPLING SYSTEM 1496 00:58:38,298 --> 00:58:39,866 AND THE INSTRUMENTS. 1497 00:58:39,866 --> 00:58:42,168 WE MADE A PHONE CALL AND ONE OF 1498 00:58:42,168 --> 00:58:44,237 OUR SYSTEM CONTRACTORS LOCKHEED 1499 00:58:44,237 --> 00:58:46,105 MARTIN IN DENVER STEPPED UP TO 1500 00:58:46,105 --> 00:58:46,973 THE PLATE. 1501 00:58:46,973 --> 00:58:49,175 WE PROVIDED THEM A BASIC DESIGN 1502 00:58:49,175 --> 00:58:51,144 AND HARDWARE AND SOME 1503 00:58:51,144 --> 00:58:52,245 ENGINEERING SUPPORT AND WERE 1504 00:58:52,245 --> 00:58:54,414 ABLE TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO 1505 00:58:54,414 --> 00:58:56,182 ACCOMMODATE IT UNDER THE 1506 00:58:56,182 --> 00:58:56,516 VEHICLE. 1507 00:58:56,516 --> 00:58:58,351 WE WENT THROUGH A LOT OF TESTING 1508 00:58:58,351 --> 00:59:03,823 TO MAKE SURE IT WOULD DEPLOY 1509 00:59:03,823 --> 00:59:05,692 APPROPRIATELY AND SAFELY ON THE 1510 00:59:05,692 --> 00:59:06,359 SURFACE OF MARS. 1511 00:59:06,359 --> 00:59:08,962 WE HAD TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO 1512 00:59:08,962 --> 00:59:10,763 OPERATE IT ONCE WE GOT IT THERE. 1513 00:59:10,763 --> 00:59:13,066 WE WERE WORKING THROUGH THE 1514 00:59:13,066 --> 00:59:14,534 OPPORTUNITIES AND THE ISSUES. 1515 00:59:14,534 --> 00:59:16,069 WE'LL BE READY TO GO WHEN IT'S 1516 00:59:16,069 --> 00:59:18,271 TIME TO FLY THE HELICOPTER ON 1517 00:59:18,271 --> 00:59:18,571 MARS. 1518 00:59:18,571 --> 00:59:21,274 BUT IT WASN'T EASY. 1519 00:59:21,274 --> 00:59:21,774 >> FANTASTIC. 1520 00:59:21,774 --> 00:59:23,409 WE WILL TAKE OUR LAST QUESTION 1521 00:59:23,409 --> 00:59:28,881 FROM LEO. 1522 00:59:28,881 --> 00:59:31,284 >> THANKS. 1523 00:59:31,284 --> 00:59:34,454 THANKS TO MATT AND TO THE DOCTOR 1524 00:59:34,454 --> 00:59:36,823 FOR THEIR WONDERFUL 1525 00:59:36,823 --> 00:59:37,257 CONTRIBUTIONS. 1526 00:59:37,257 --> 00:59:40,260 MY QUESTION IS FOR THE 1527 00:59:40,260 --> 00:59:41,794 ADMINISTRATOR. 1528 00:59:41,794 --> 00:59:45,698 MARS 2020 IS BASICALLY MARS 1529 00:59:45,698 --> 00:59:46,165 2026. 1530 00:59:46,165 --> 00:59:47,900 I HAVE TO ASK A POLITICAL 1531 00:59:47,900 --> 00:59:50,536 QUESTION I THINK I CAN ASK 1532 00:59:50,536 --> 00:59:52,272 BECAUSE I'M AN OCEAN AWAY SO 1533 00:59:52,272 --> 00:59:55,241 NOBODY WILL THINK I HAVE AN 1534 00:59:55,241 --> 00:59:55,575 AGENDA. 1535 00:59:55,575 --> 00:59:57,543 A LOT OF YOUR INTERNATIONAL 1536 00:59:57,543 --> 01:00:00,046 PARTNERS WOULD BE WONDERING 1537 01:00:00,046 --> 01:00:01,981 WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO CONTINUE 1538 01:00:01,981 --> 01:00:04,984 TO SERVE AS NASA ADMINISTRATOR 1539 01:00:04,984 --> 01:00:08,254 NO MATTER WHO GETS ELECTED IN 1540 01:00:08,254 --> 01:00:08,788 NOVEMBER? 1541 01:00:08,788 --> 01:00:10,323 ASSUME, OF COURSE, YOU ARE 1542 01:00:10,323 --> 01:00:13,660 ASKED. 1543 01:00:13,660 --> 01:00:15,895 >> LOOK, MY JOB RIGHT NOW IS TO 1544 01:00:15,895 --> 01:00:18,231 DO THESE STUNNING ACHIEVEMENTS 1545 01:00:18,231 --> 01:00:20,099 ON BEHALF OF THE UNITED STATES 1546 01:00:20,099 --> 01:00:20,633 OF AMERICA. 1547 01:00:20,633 --> 01:00:22,635 I APPRECIATE THE QUESTION, BUT 1548 01:00:22,635 --> 01:00:24,504 LOOK, I SERVE AT THE PLEASURE OF 1549 01:00:24,504 --> 01:00:25,204 THE PRESIDENT. 1550 01:00:25,204 --> 01:00:28,374 I SERVE AT THE PLEASURE OF THE 1551 01:00:28,374 --> 01:00:28,908 CURRENT PRESIDENT. 1552 01:00:28,908 --> 01:00:31,210 I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THE NEXT 1553 01:00:31,210 --> 01:00:34,714 PRESIDENT HAS THE NASA 1554 01:00:34,714 --> 01:00:39,852 ADMINISTRATOR THAT HE WANTS. 1555 01:00:39,852 --> 01:00:40,687 THE WAY THE POLITICAL SYSTEM IN 1556 01:00:40,687 --> 01:00:42,588 THE UNITED STATES WORKS THE NASA 1557 01:00:42,588 --> 01:00:44,290 ADMINISTRATOR IS SELECTED BY THE 1558 01:00:44,290 --> 01:00:44,657 PRESIDENT. 1559 01:00:44,657 --> 01:00:46,025 YOU HAVE TO HAVE THAT 1560 01:00:46,025 --> 01:00:46,459 RELATIONSHIP. 1561 01:00:46,459 --> 01:00:47,927 LOOK AT WHAT WE ARE DOING RIGHT 1562 01:00:47,927 --> 01:00:48,628 NOW. 1563 01:00:48,628 --> 01:00:53,032 WE HAVE THE ARTEMIS PROGRAM WE 1564 01:00:53,032 --> 01:00:54,667 ARE GOING TO THE MOON 1565 01:00:54,667 --> 01:00:55,568 SUSTAINABLY WITH A PURPOSE TO 1566 01:00:55,568 --> 01:00:56,269 GET TO MARS. 1567 01:00:56,269 --> 01:01:00,106 BECAUSE OF THAT WE HAVE HAD 1568 01:01:00,106 --> 01:01:02,275 REALLY BIG BUDGET REQUESTS. 1569 01:01:02,275 --> 01:01:02,975 THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED 1570 01:01:02,975 --> 01:01:04,577 STATES HAS PUT ON THE TABLE THE 1571 01:01:04,577 --> 01:01:07,213 BIGGEST BUDGET NASA HAS EVER HAD 1572 01:01:07,213 --> 01:01:09,215 IN NOMINAL DOLLARS EVER. 1573 01:01:09,215 --> 01:01:11,484 IN REAL DOLLARS APOLLO WAS 1574 01:01:11,484 --> 01:01:11,818 BIGGER. 1575 01:01:11,818 --> 01:01:14,454 BUT WE ARE HEADING THE RIGHT 1576 01:01:14,454 --> 01:01:14,821 DIRECTION. 1577 01:01:14,821 --> 01:01:17,190 THAT IS BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT OF 1578 01:01:17,190 --> 01:01:19,359 THE UNITED STATES TRUSTS THE 1579 01:01:19,359 --> 01:01:20,526 NASA AD MIN STRAIGHTER. 1580 01:01:20,526 --> 01:01:21,894 I WOULD RECOMMEND TO WHATEVER 1581 01:01:21,894 --> 01:01:24,630 THE PRESIDENT IS AT ANY POINT IN 1582 01:01:24,630 --> 01:01:26,265 TIME PICK THE ADMINISTRATOR YOU 1583 01:01:26,265 --> 01:01:28,234 TRUST TO GET THE JOB DONE, 1584 01:01:28,234 --> 01:01:29,869 PERIOD, END OF STORY. 1585 01:01:29,869 --> 01:01:31,738 LOOK, I HAVE HAD THE TIME OF MY 1586 01:01:31,738 --> 01:01:33,005 LIFE IN THIS JOB. 1587 01:01:33,005 --> 01:01:34,874 I WILL NOT LIE, IT'S THE 1588 01:01:34,874 --> 01:01:37,110 GREATEST JOB I HAVE EVER HAD. 1589 01:01:37,110 --> 01:01:38,511 THERE IS A TIME WHEN IT IS 1590 01:01:38,511 --> 01:01:40,346 SOMEBODY ELSE'S TURN. 1591 01:01:40,346 --> 01:01:42,949 I WANT UNDER NO ILLUSIONS I AM 1592 01:01:42,949 --> 01:01:44,517 THE ONLY ONE CAPABLE OF DOING 1593 01:01:44,517 --> 01:01:44,917 THIS JOB. 1594 01:01:44,917 --> 01:01:46,786 THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO 1595 01:01:46,786 --> 01:01:48,788 WILL BE BETTER THAN ME AND I'LL 1596 01:01:48,788 --> 01:01:49,756 LEAVE IT AT THAT. 1597 01:01:49,756 --> 01:01:51,324 THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTION WANT. 1598 01:01:51,324 --> 01:01:54,861 >> THANK YOU. 1599 01:01:54,861 --> 01:01:57,397 WE'LL TURN IT OVER TO FINAL 1600 01:01:57,397 --> 01:02:00,333 REMARKS FROM THE NASA 1601 01:02:00,333 --> 01:02:00,800 ADMINISTRATOR. 1602 01:02:00,800 --> 01:02:02,535 >> THANK YOU FOR THE PANEL 1603 01:02:02,535 --> 01:02:04,103 PARTICIPATING IN THIS TODAY. 1604 01:02:04,103 --> 01:02:06,272 WHAT AN EXCITING TIME. 1605 01:02:06,272 --> 01:02:09,842 AND I KNOW WE JUST HAD THIS 1606 01:02:09,842 --> 01:02:11,277 CONVERSATION ABOUT INGENUITY AND 1607 01:02:11,277 --> 01:02:12,745 THE HELICOPTER THAT IS GOING TO 1608 01:02:12,745 --> 01:02:13,880 FLY ON MARS. 1609 01:02:13,880 --> 01:02:16,349 I WANT TO KIND OF PUT IT IN 1610 01:02:16,349 --> 01:02:19,185 PERSPECTIVE FOR A MOMENT. 1611 01:02:19,185 --> 01:02:21,487 IMAGINE LOOKING FROM 1612 01:02:21,487 --> 01:02:23,089 PERSEVERANCE OUT AT A HELICOPTER 1613 01:02:23,089 --> 01:02:25,758 THAT IS FLYING AROUND 1614 01:02:25,758 --> 01:02:27,193 PERSEVERANCE AND THE HELICOPTER 1615 01:02:27,193 --> 01:02:32,765 IS LOOKING BACK AT PIERCE 1616 01:02:32,765 --> 01:02:33,866 PERSEVERANCE AND WE'LL BE ABLE 1617 01:02:33,866 --> 01:02:36,803 TO SEE WITH OUR OWN EYES WITH 1618 01:02:36,803 --> 01:02:38,337 MOTION PICTURES THESE KIND OF 1619 01:02:38,337 --> 01:02:40,973 ACTIVITIES HAPPENING ON ANOTHER 1620 01:02:40,973 --> 01:02:41,307 WORLD. 1621 01:02:41,307 --> 01:02:42,942 AND I JUST CAN'T TELL YOU HOW 1622 01:02:42,942 --> 01:02:47,547 EXCITED I AM ABOUT INGENUITY AND 1623 01:02:47,547 --> 01:02:49,515 PERSEVERANCE THE FIRST 1624 01:02:49,515 --> 01:02:50,483 ASTRO-BIOLOGY MISSION. 1625 01:02:50,483 --> 01:02:52,251 WE ARE PROVING OUT WE CAN TURN 1626 01:02:52,251 --> 01:02:54,854 THE CARBON DIOXIDE ATMOSPHERE OF 1627 01:02:54,854 --> 01:02:56,722 MARS INTO PURE OXYGEN FOR LIFE 1628 01:02:56,722 --> 01:02:58,024 SUPPORT BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT 1629 01:02:58,024 --> 01:03:00,393 HAS GIVEN US AN AGENDA TO PLANT 1630 01:03:00,393 --> 01:03:02,028 AN AMERICAN FLAG ON MARS AND TO 1631 01:03:02,028 --> 01:03:04,931 GO WITH OUR INTERNATIONAL 1632 01:03:04,931 --> 01:03:06,999 PARTNERS AND OUR COMMERCIAL 1633 01:03:06,999 --> 01:03:08,468 PARTNERS, ALL OF WHICH IS IN 1634 01:03:08,468 --> 01:03:10,937 PRESIDENT TRUMP'S SPACE POLICY 1635 01:03:10,937 --> 01:03:11,370 DIRECTIVE 1. 1636 01:03:11,370 --> 01:03:13,172 WE HAVE THIS BIG AGENDA. 1637 01:03:13,172 --> 01:03:15,308 THIS IS A PRECURSOR MISSION BUT 1638 01:03:15,308 --> 01:03:18,478 ALSO A SCIENTIFIC MISSION IN ITS 1639 01:03:18,478 --> 01:03:20,246 OWN RIGHT AND THERE IS SO MUCH 1640 01:03:20,246 --> 01:03:22,415 MORE TO DISCOVER AND WE ARE SO 1641 01:03:22,415 --> 01:03:23,349 LOOKING FORWARD TO IT. 1642 01:03:23,349 --> 01:03:24,617 I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO 1643 01:03:24,617 --> 01:03:26,986 EVERYBODY FOR PAYING ATTENTION. 1644 01:03:26,986 --> 01:03:28,988 IF YOU WANT TO FOLLOW US, IF YOU 1645 01:03:28,988 --> 01:03:31,290 WANT TO PARTICIPATE WITH US 1646 01:03:31,290 --> 01:03:34,994 VIRTUALLY FROM THURSDAY FORWARD 1647 01:03:34,994 --> 01:03:35,361 NASA.GOV. 1648 01:03:35,361 --> 01:03:36,462 I WOULD ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY TO 1649 01:03:36,462 --> 01:03:38,364 GO TO NASA.GOV. 1650 01:03:38,364 --> 01:03:40,366 THIS IS ALL ABOUT THE NEXT 1651 01:03:40,366 --> 01:03:41,667 GENERATION. 1652 01:03:41,667 --> 01:03:42,502 WE WANT TO INSPIRE PEOPLE. 1653 01:03:42,502 --> 01:03:45,004 HAVE YOUR KIDS OR GRANDKIDS TUNE 1654 01:03:45,004 --> 01:03:45,404 IN. 1655 01:03:45,404 --> 01:03:47,039 THIS IS A GREAT MOMENT FOR NOT 1656 01:03:47,039 --> 01:03:48,174 JUST THE UNITED STATES OF 1657 01:03:48,174 --> 01:03:50,877 AMERICA BUT ALSO FOR THE WORLD. 1658 01:03:50,877 --> 01:03:52,144 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH, JIM. 1659 01:03:52,144 --> 01:03:56,616 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING 1660 01:03:56,616 --> 01:03:57,683 OUR CONVERSATION. 1661 01:03:57,683 --> 01:04:02,722 THE NEXT WILL BE THE MARSES 202. 1662 01:04:02,722 --> 01:04:04,423 AND LAUNCH KOFRPAGE ON THURSDAY 1663 01:04:04,423 --> 01:04:07,360 AT 7:00 A.M. AND THE LAUNCH AT 1664 01:04:07,360 --> 01:04:07,727 SEVEN:50. 1665 01:04:07,727 --> 01:04:08,895 CAN YOU CONTINUE TO TALK ABOUT 1666 01:04:08,895 --> 01:04:14,800 THE GREATNESS OF THIS ROVER 202N 1667 01:04:14,800 --> 01:04:18,304 TWITTER AND FACEBOOK. 1668 01:04:18,304 --> 01:04:22,074 AND #COUNTDOWNTOMARS. 1669 01:04:22,074 --> 01:04:22,808 THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. 1670 01:04:22,808 --> 01:04:23,976 WE'LL SEE YOU AGAIN SOON. 1671 01:04:23,976 --> 01:04:25,945 THANK YOU.