JPL and the Space Age: The Pathfinders
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2022
- It started with JPL agreeing to land something on Mars - cheaply - and do it in a radically different way. This is how the era NASA called “Faster, Better, Cheaper” began. The documentary film “The Pathfinders” tells the story of a small group of engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who did not heed warnings that the audacious challenge of landing on Mars with airbags would likely not be a career-enhancing move.
From relying on a parachute that could not be tested in a way to match the Martian atmosphere to receiving the late addition of an unwanted rover that wouldn’t have looked out of place in a toy store, the Mars Pathfinder mission was a doubter’s dream, taken on by a mostly young group of engineers and scientists guided by a grizzled manager known for his maverick ways.
“The Pathfinders” retraces the journey of this daring mission to Mars that captured the imagination of people around the world with its dramatic landing and its tiny rover - the first wheels ever to roll on Mars.
Documentary length: 60 minutes - Věda a technologie
Can't get enough of these JPL docus ❤
Hearing Neil's voice gives me goosebumps. I remember listening to all of the codex entries in all 3 Mass Effect games and Neil's voice is perfect.
I always hear him on the Nasa channel and wondered if it was him as I never see him credited anywhere.
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Thank you! Finally story of Pathfinder+Sojourner is told by JPL itself on CZcams. The video is great! Thank you again!
Im in love with this JPL and the space age series
These documentaries must be mandatory in Universities as a part of introduction to engineering class. They show the importance of leadership and team work, understanding policy and policy making, why budget matters, how much you can accomplish so much with so little and what is risk taking and what to do when you fail.
The part at 56:50 choked me up... Thinking about how poor little Sojourner basically did a "Land Before Time" with their mother(ship) Pathfinder passing away right in front of her, waiting patently by their side before they too finally succumb to the elements. 😢😢😢
Fantastic, ground-breaking mission though, I grew up on this and other explorations of the cosmos.
Glad I'm not the only one who got emotional at this part. To all the rovers now sleeping on Mars, rest well little ones. You will always be remembered.
Question!
Do you think that when humans finally reach Mars. Should they bring the dead rovers back to life or should they just keep them there as Memorial piece for future Martians to see how they looked at their operational sites?
I believe it's inevitable that all of the landing sites on Mars and the Moon will be revisited. Many of the rovers will likely be recollected and brought back to Earth eventually. What a Smithsonian exhibition that will be!
This mission was why I got interested in space and astronomy. It has literally changed my life!
I remember patiently waiting until the early hours of the morning in the UK to download the first image from Pathfinder's Sojourner rover after it had landed back in 1997. It took almost as long to download the file over a 14K modem!
Exciting times.
and a few years later we find out that space is a hoax
An incredibly moving historical capsule. Well done !!
This series makes me so emotional! Thank you JPL.
The narrator is the codex reader from Mass Effect!
I love JPL and all it stands for..! Anyone even not interested, or informed about Space Science Engineering, hearing "JPL" immediately says "oh yeah , NASA's Rocket Guys " . When properly funded ( Viking ) heavy landers with lots of data return capacity are delivered. When not funded abundantly ( Pathfinder/Sojourner ) light , data scarce landers are sucessfully delivered. And so onto Spirit and Opportunity, heavier and more successful. And now the gigantic Curiosity and Perseverance Rovers...! In summary, place your bets on JPL, because those brainiacs CAN deliver...!!!!!! 😀 Great doco, thank you...!
These docs are fascinating. I remember watching Curiosity's landing live stream years ago. It was maybe the most gripping and monumental stream I have ever witnessed. The dedication and skill of these folks is enormous.
Prove it was real. Liar
N7DAY!!!
Hey Garrus. Glad to see you take a break from your calibrations to watch this video
Thank you JPL. Tears of happiness uplifted our existence!
I freakin love these JPL documentaries. Please keep them coming.
This is an amazing documentary with a very touching happy ending! I was at the edge of my seat watching the EDL! Almost felt like a live broadcast! Congratulazions to JPL for this ground-breaking mission, and also for making this film! THANK YOU!
Excellent excellent I enjoyed every second of it thank you JPL
an exceptional programme, thank you all, from the UK
Amazing documentary, in that time I was in my 16 years old with a lot of dream, thanks from Brazil,!
What a awsome story of such a awsome , humble and fun team staying true to them selves!! Wish the whole world would approach stuff like the way this team did!!! Thanks!!
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Exactly! And the next generation should NOT destroy the technology like we did because it's a painful process to build it back again. The idiots from NASA destroyed the technology to go to the moon, that is why man has been stuck in low earth orbit since 1972.
Aaahhh 12:32 that is my brother Sam. He always wanted to be an astronaut ever since he was a young Boy Scout. I remember him showing me the video of the airbag lander test when they drop the scale model onto a huge artificial slope covered with pointy rocks. He did well in life.
Real Mars Video! 👍
It's amazing how everyone in this team looks younger than at the time of mission. How can one grow younger...
What a mission!.... I don't know what to say.... What a Mission!
That was cool. Would love to see more of behind the scenes stuff..laboratory, control center, problem solving, landing and scouting footage. Never boring for me. Could watch and study for days. Thanks for this vid.
Buzz Aldrin's favourite chat up line was 'I was the first man on the Moon my dear, Neil before me'. Tremendous. Although for quotes you can't beat Churchill. An elderly lady noticing that his trouser flies were open at a party, whispered to him 'Prime minister, I'm afraid the guard house door is open' to which he replied to the rather shocked old lady 'And tell me Madam, is the guard asleep with his head on two sandbags'
Thank you for uploading
Curiosity , opportunity , spirit , perseverance , ingenuity and then finally humans on Mars
I mean robotic missions like those will always be sent but I guess
There are already new multicopter proposed for the very next Mars mission, I suppose at least another 2 or 3 robotic missions are to be expected before a possible human landing
@@fotmheki there is that and new rover concepts. I’m literally working on one with NASA lol
It takes Curiosity, Opportunity. Perseverance, Ingenuity, and then finally humans on mars.
@@ninjacker1497 and more man
I originated the Mars rovers concepts/designs 1987 as Ghostwriter for Star Trek,sending my drawings for JPL rovers &orbiters 1987 April along with Trek material for Gene to relay to JPL since he was well-known and a celeb to many Jpl workers. Jerry Lehane Mars.
Sure man
Watching everybody an excitement after it happens I have to say we were all there with you as humanity makes you feel proud thank you all we were all there with you and we'll always be there with you thank you very much 😂😃😁🙀🙀🥳🥳🥳🥳😃🤗
This was such a great series. More of this please! Thank you.
What a great made for tv fiction.
NASA deserves an award.
Even though Jack Parsons got pushed out of the company he created in a field he created I think he would be proud of what's been accomplished, the first JPL team definitely deserve to be household names.
Gracias por compartir con nosotros los esfuerzos de tan maravillosa
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i lost soooo much sleep that 4th of July ... but so worth it. went to work that night thinking of the possibilities and didn't even need caffeine.
really cool video again. i do love watching these and i learn stuff too :)
It’s really exciting to work with such a team.
So amazing I hope sometime will get there thanks for sharing this video
I loved watching this. So inspiring.
You guys are truly amazing!!!
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Excellent video. Thank you
Great film. Shows how tortuous the path to success was. 19:25 "build it, test it, break it, fix it, do it again."
Thanks for this look back at ye olde JPL. Was fixated on Cassini at the time and missed all this. You should put all your old press conferences up, if you still have them. Would be a hoot :)
GREAT video - thank you very much!
Thank you soooooo much for all you have done and are doing.
Very interesting!
سبحان الله الخالق الجبار ..
هذا خلق الله ..
Unless this God fella is funding NASA, I'm pretty sure all of this is a result of human ability, determination, and funding from various government departments. 🚀
Awesome presentation
Real Mars Video! 👍
I worked with IBM years ago. I remember they said at the time, one of the biggest problems was the documentation.
The way we put robots on Mars makes me believe that maybe we might land humans on Mars. Great work JPL 🫡
This documentary just captured my heart
Brilliant (nuff said ! )
Real Mars Video! 👍
I respect them , fabulous technology and their Spirits to Science and astronomy and curiosity .
Human kind has ‘ Curiosity ‘ , it’s tons , curiosity makes people to build up future .
Pathfinder isn’t only machine to research something on another planet , wisdoms in the Pathfinder , a lot .
Updating is important .
Good job Dan 3:44
Real Mars Video! 👍
Great 😁🔥
Wow better than any movie i have seen.
These guys are rockstars
Rocketstars 😊
this is just wow.
Real Mars Video! 👍
When is the one for Mars polar lander? Or the one for spirit and opportunity??
Also amazing documentary, I love it
So did we find any Prothean ruins on Mars or a Void Dragon?
If I could start over this would be my career path.. there folks were crazy.. fun and way smart
I can't help but be moved by this affair even now
Sojourner is the true star here!
Gostei!
I still find it remarkable that the concept of landing,or more importantly, slowing down for entry, always seems to be hard work for a team with more money behind it that any other project, when a single man developes a craft that slows itself down boy folding in have and using its flight surfaces to slow it down as Bert Rutan did in his craft, it worked perfectly,so much so that the craft was made of fibre glass not metal.
If he can do it why not they??
False equivalency, bro.
伟大的航天工程
You should take a movie of this🔥😎
36:00 - All I could think of was, "Waht if that plane went down." 😲
so much doubt by everyone, yet they actually did it. never doubt engineers
So much luck has also played for these missions and will do so in space missions to come
Gracias !!!! ME inspiran , NOS inspiran!! Llegar a Marte no es tan sencillo como decirlo !! Pero estén seguros de nuestro respeto y admiración porque USTEDES lo hicieron POSIBLE !!! BRAVO BRAVO !! DESDE TUCUMÁN - ARGENTINA !! LA PATRIA DEL Ingeniero Miguel San Martín y tantoss otros científicos FEÑICITACIONES!!! GENIOSSSS!!!!
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Contempt prior to investigation. God Bless ~~ The U.S.! ~~ NASA TOO! ;)
Lions just love the vintage UNIX screenshots. They showed a tiny bit of the unpaid for XV program which caused a scandal. The late 90's were the peak of UNIX as a desktop.
After doing the math, i was 7 months and 1 day old when Pathfinder landed.
32:12 _"If only you knew how bad things really are"_
TONY SPEAR 😎AKA 😎TONY STARK 🔥
Alright nasa we need some equipment
18:29 this guy already used a small type mobile phone, wow
Ooof, have you heard of a flip phone?
I hear the budget is so tight since covid that they are considering sending everything up through Southwest airlines 🤣🤣..incredible feat considering the obstacles.
It was my idea and request to land Pathfinder Sojourner on Mars July 4,1997,as I wrote in April 1987
Right 1:09 the truth of the awaking
After watching this when I said I watched it but did not seem to register although same account? I wonder if you knew something about things more recent. Mars squeezed in. Modus operandi comes to mind- there is even a mission carp diem that phrase began everything that 1kb file the dreams😢 😂😅❤ thanks
.in Pasadena California!??? Come and challenge me
Real Mars Video! 👍
And the MEDAL goes to ME...YEP EEE..LOL..🏅🏅🏅
Why is an airbag landing so much less expensive than the alternatives?
What will we DO with these Rover's when Mars is fully colonised..?
I think we should build museums/enclosures at least to preserve the legacy of our journey.
I don't think they should be moved...
They should stay exactly where they are.
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NASA🇺🇲🎧🇺🇲NASA
to surrect planets is how to live in a universe - mars belongs to life
(once it rains fish can survive mars nature)
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Someone: No balls. NASA:
Then mark wattney used the pathfinder to communicate to earth again...
In this series a theme of impossible timelines, budget and major stress is repeatedly stressed. Perhaps JPL had no choice, but to work under such conditions, but trying figure out these highly complex machines and missions with technically incompetent bureaucrats breathing down your neck seems to be more of an NFL locker room than a technical lab of a major university. Perhaps this appeals to some but tired and stressed people make mistakes as well. Regardless, the infighting and outfighting with NASA HQ does not paint an appealing picture of such a workplace.
Curiosity in the mars mission lounch the earth Live Blog stats
I Got capsule'$ no.9
Give it a rest, goofy. 🙄
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What is refreshing to see about this outfit is they are not a bunch of stiff shirts that were full of themselves