JPL and the Space Age: Mission to Mars
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- čas přidán 27. 11. 2022
- After the devastating loss of two back-to-back missions to Mars in 1999, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory found itself at a crossroads: Would the lab pull back, becoming more cautious and conservative with the new missions it was willing to take on? Or would JPL continue its tradition of pursuing challenging and innovative missions?
That question was answered when JPL proposed designing and building an entirely new type of Mars rover from scratch on top of an extremely tight schedule, and launching not one, but two of them to the Red Planet.
“Mission to Mars” tells how engineers and scientists overcame multiple adversities to design, build, test, and launch the Spirit and Opportunity rovers, two of NASA’s most storied missions.
Documentary length: 60 minutes - Věda a technologie
watched Good Night Oppy a couple of days ago, watched this one today and have followed along on our journey to Mars since seeing the first images sent by Viking... THANK YOU for keeping these impressive missions alive and documented so future generations can be inspired!
Years and years ago I remember reading about those missions every time a book or a magazine came my way. A few columns here, a handful of still images there... This is incredible.
I truly love all of the JPL episodes and how they show the ingenuity and fortitude of all the individuals associated with the programs. Kudos to all of the departments for working together on them and the success of all the missions
We sold JPL specially configured computer systems back from 95 to 2000. One thing I learned that is still true today is that you have to have people that absolutely love what they are doing to be not only successful but great. When our CEO left who was a computer nerd, bumped out by the parent company, the product lost its individuality, its special touch and the business crashed. Really a sad story.
sounds pretty typical … money people hate creativity…unless its making more money.
these guys put a rover on the mars that almost lasted 20 years. Incredible work to all at JPL.
An amazing story to bring all these headlines home to the Singer sewing machines used to put the air bags together!
That was a nice reflection!
The images and data that came back, made it all worth it. 🇺🇸
What a fascinating story!
As a communications person I spent many hours at the NASA Sunnyvale/Mountain View site. It was fascinating and fun. I've been in that wind tunnel and walked around in there - I had this fear the entire time that someone was going to slam the door, lock it and turn on the huge fan!
Now that I'm retired,watching these tense meetings is bringing back some less than pleasant feelings. At least the men and women were building and launching something very special that fires humanity's imagination, and benefits us all.
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The more I watch this vid, the more I get an appreciation for high-stakes nature of a project like this. Asking for millions of dollars, hoping every bit of the project works not just the way it should, but perfectly, Timetables which are barely able to be made,
etc...Lol, I got tense watching much of it.
Thank to NASA and CZcams for making this type of content available for anyone and glad to see people interested in science. I will admit it might not be the most dramatic thing ever but I think it's great they show human side of these immense projects and shows a glimpse of the reality of what it like to work on such a mission.
Another stand-out documentary from JPL Brilliant, fantastic, absorbing. Thanks guys!
I really enjoyed this and for me being an Ohio native and driving past the NASA facility in Sandusky on my way to Cedar Point. I always wondered what it was like and everything in this video was great. But I was truly awestruck seeing inside the facility. It really made my day
Loving the musical choices here . Don't let the skepticism of others weigh on your future creative endeavors
wonderful documentary, it would be nice if we can also have similar documentaries for other missions as well.
I missed Neil Ross' narration on this one
Exactly! The narrator was present in the previous part and in the next one but here it is missing. I wonder why?
@@mateuszbugaj799 In the earlier videos about the beginnings of NASA, a narrator was needed to fill in the blanks. With later missions, there are enough living witnesses to tell their stories as they experienced them. That's my guess. 🤔
Just love these Doco"s about the massive, talented and stressful efforts of the brightest minds to land tech on another Planet. JPL Rocks...! Thanks so much for these series..! Cheers
What a beautiful documentary, just wonderful and awesome!!!!!!!
Great documentary. Thanks JPL!
These just keep getting better and better
Love that these exist. Thank you for putting them together!
these documentaries are a treasure chest!
Endless thanks to all NASA employees for your contributions to science.👏👏❤️❤️❤️❤️
Haha more stalling on salary we could have been on mars decades ago according to dr zubrin
Great Documentary, but definitely miss the voice over like the ones on previous documentaries
Excellent video making 👋☂️
Fantastic piece.
Loved that,.....but I was left hanging!! Hopefully a part 2 is coming?
Terrific! Thanks.
Please please please post the next part soon !!
I name everything in Kerbal Space Program after my favourite JPL personalities. For example, the first suborbital flights were atop the "EdStone Rocket" (see what I did there?), there will be solar system missions such as the Porco Solar Probe and (naturally) the Casani mission to Saturn. Not sure what to do with Gentry Lee; he definitely needs honouring.
And, no, I don't have a girlfriend ...
amazing to see how that parachute issue took that long to figure out
Well Done!
Amazing.
important encouragement
good report
Greetings from Poland. Where is the polish engineer A. B. Chmielewski?
Great!
a lot of this footage is in 'Goodnight Oppy'
I'm 100% in agreement with this book: The End of Astronauts: Why Robots Are the Future of Exploration - Hardcover - April 19, 2022
"Dare Mighty Things" - Motto of JPL. Submotto: "Man, mighty things are hard!" Mars has just enough atmosphere to be a real pain for any lander mission. Then again, JPL proved it's enough atmosphere to fly a drone! What's the old saying, every nearly airless planet has a silver lining?
56:42 yeah!
What would have been NASA without the JPL ?
Morning
I love these guys, but better do not make phonecalls while driving.
And all this for an unmanned vehicle. The mind boggles when considering Artemis.
4days ago only saw because of live space walk in twenty mins😂 will sort that out soon!
Moving it by road seems far more risky than by air, would love to know the reasons why.
People reach to Mars, Chinese and US craft land on Mars, Some other countries reach in Mars atmosphere but till now we didn't see any remarkable change in investigation or Discovery like terra forming Mars.
How I wish I could contribute something.
lol the guy at 41:15 kinda looks like Bobby Fischer
i live in toronto canada and toronto island is crossing the bridge do not have cell phone signal most of the time also grand canyon and now we want to find out other planet but cant afford build a tower in remote locations around the world. how many life we can save just to have a cellphone tower for an emergency
32:22 We are everywhere
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I have only 1 question to NASA. why didn't you send a simple paint brush with solar powered rovers. The robotic arm just have to pick it up and clean the solar panels when required. Some rovers would have been working until now if you've done that
My guess: budgetary constraints - and lack of time to develop your (seemingly) simple solution. 🤔
@@TheStockwell no need of high tech nasa level research. Just a simple paint brush with uv degredation would suffice. Though simple, benefits would have been massive
@@administratorshan I'm not sure you have a real appreciation of the complexity, weight and cost of your proposed solution. Your "simple paint brush" is a significant robotic device. Just have a really deep think about what you're proposing it does, how that can be achieved in reality and the complexity it would add to what's already an incredibly complex spacecraft design. It would indeed take "high tech nasa [sic] research" to implement on a Mars rover. Simpler solutions could be found in air blowing devices and wipers more like those on an automobile, and I'm fairly sure those were proposed, but even those are still too complicated, heavy and costly for what is quite a trivial purpose - well, at least a purpose not worth the cost and addition of so many more points of potential failure that come with the addition of a robotic cleaning system, or the like.
I agree it sounds like an obvious and very simple solution. Just in reality, it's not the least bit "simple".
@@PBeringer yes I agree, though it would not be so simple to us, for a professional team who nailed a skycrane landing sequence, a brush attached to the robotic arm is a walk in the park. with the added cost and weight, given the benefits of adding 5 or more years of life to the rover, that would have been the best deal ever in my opinion. It could have been a separate light robotic arm added to the side, leaving zero points of failure to other functionalities arising from this system
There one thing i notice man those managers really are matter of fact people
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What is so unfortunate to see is how the first worry of these scientists/engineers after a failure is the "politics", not the actual facts of the failure. This is displaying a broken burecratic system in NASA. The results of decades of this type of politics in an engineering/scientific endeavour is the SLS.
Sure. Whatever you say. Most of us judge NASA by their accomplishments, not perceived political flaws in the process leading TO those achievements. 😐
@@TheStockwell why shouldn’t we examine the politics along the way? Maybe its inhibiting even more/larger achievements.
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mission to Mars Curiosity
Seriously, I fail to understand why a parachute problem.
We have been dropping military vehicles/heavy payloads for... half a century.
Where are those people?
For one thing, these were supersonic..
@@pseudononymouse and we have never done that before is what you are implying?
Amazing ✝️
Mission Impossible more like.
You're quite a misguided little troll. Respect! 🤡
@@TheStockwell Truth hurts.
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Too bad they ditched the narrator. The lion kingdom volunteers to narrate.
It’s a billion dollar egg drop. 😅
In this century we will find out that Humans cannot live in space, and the farther up or down the gravity well we travel the more the quantum biological conditions that make life possible on Earth affect the coherence needed to maintain life.
..sorry, interesting subject, but this is confusing
Hi, in trying for a no_propwash firefighting tankers if one puts a jetboard system in a box as motor:
An economic opportunity to aviation/aerospace and containers: Fluid_impulse motors fly without air no_fuels no_batteries by using all_magnet motors for pumps.
Working on a small one for a landmine detection drone, nobody seems to get it but plumbers so far, fluid_impulse can punch a pipe through concrete walls when a sprinkler system goes off.
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How often does NASA find itself needing to punch holes through a Mars rover or through concrete because a sprinkler system failed?
Let's try to stay on topic and avoid Nikola Tesla territory. No offense intended.
@@TheStockwell Well, they're dumb enough to not use all_magnet motors instead of solar panels so not thinking they're as smart as plumbers.
A 1300hp motor fits cars powers a 1-Mw genset/container 50yr no_inputs warranty, way beyond your brain power, Belgian.
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Repair robots. Connect a rover to a older one.
"Manifest Destiny" was not a good idea 500 years ago and it is not a good idea now. In fact it is a horrible idea.
True - because Manifest Destiny dates back less than 200 years. 😐
@@TheStockwell trivial reply
@@superblondeDotOrg Accurate reply is trivial why?
That Papal Bull, but American First People differ; "You may not take over Lands Already Inhabited!"
22:25 "What's the meaning of good diversity? You can have so much diversity that you don't know what the h you are doing" - Pretty much sums up the state this country is in today LOL
That very annoying whaky tune - awful
Islam is the path of truth
Ll bogus and fake