[X] My Assistant

[Bill Harris]

On my local PBS station, the series "What Went Right" is airing a program on the Rovers.

Short cut-and-paste and URL to my local PBS attached.

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What Went Right

Description
After landing in January 2004, Spirit and Opportunity, NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers, continued to operate on the Red Planet throughout 2005, much longer than their designers and builders had initially promised. WHAT WENT RIGHT goes behind the scenes to discover, through the stories of the men and women who made it happen, why one of the most challenging missions of the entire space age succeeded when so many other national endeavors have fallen short.
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http://www.aptv.org/Schedule/showinfo.asp?...1814&NOLA1=WWRI


--Bill

[Bill Harris]

Yes, Lyford, thanks for the review of this show. I'd not gotten around to posting on this program. I.E., I plumb forgot.

I agree with your review: it was not so much a dry techie photo-documentary as it was a 1:1 discussion by the people who are doing this of what problems came up and what they did to make the project a success. From visiting the JPL website, I recognized many of the 'team family' in the interviews. In a nutshell, it was a look at the human side and not the robotic side of this mission.

And worth re-visiting.

--Bill