Richard Cook
Richard Cook
quite state sure
We're in a state where we're not quite sure what's happened,
certainly five lasts thinking
If it lasts for five times that...I wouldn't be all that shocked. But we certainly don't want to go into it thinking that way.
ahead decent effort landing risk validation
Obviously, the entry, decent and landing is a very big challenge. I think we're going down the path...retiring a lot of the risk in the technology. But there's still the whole validation process...and still a lot of effort ahead to make that work.
paths wait
There are a lot of different paths that you can be on. We just have to wait to see which one.
amazed both capability certainly chemist circles drive fairly people point size speed
MSL is like a chemist on Mars. From a technological point of view, people will be fairly amazed by both the size and the capability of MSL. It will certainly be able to drive circles around MER to a certain extent. Not speed wise. But from how long MSL can go every day...it will be able to do much more.
ideas less plan
We're sprouting new ideas as we go along, and the plan is more or less the same.
hear period
There is still a very real possibility that we may not hear anything during that whole period of time.
best confident landing learn pick send
We're going to be able to learn much more from orbit. And I'm confident that in the end we'll pick out the best MSL landing site. If you only have one to send, you send it to the best place you can on Mars.
both fit lab smaller tend tight
Both are super-complicated...taking very sophisticated lab experiments and compressing them down smaller to fit into a very tight space...as all rovers tend to be.
below breaking certain concerns level pieces spacecraft
When you get below a certain level you have concerns about overheating the spacecraft or potentially breaking pieces of it off,
hoped signal
We didn't get a signal at 8:30 p.m. We hoped we would.
came
This is where the idea of the movie originated, this is where the inspiration came from and this was the right place for the premiere.
loss resulted
It potentially resulted in the loss of the mission.
basic change conscious decision mission parameters solar
It's not the same mission with the solar arrays. It would have to be a conscious decision on NASA's part to say we want to change the basic parameters of the mission.