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[djellison]

Anyone who has the Volume 2 of the Mars Mission books will have a DVD that includes the Opportunity EDL coverage and the first post landing Press Conf - but since Spirit landed, I've never seen that footage again of Spirit's landing.

It costs money to get footage from JPL ( not an enormous ammount, but it's not exactly cheap ) but I was thinking of getting some footage, putting together as much as I could on a DVD and selling it.

Now - a DVD can only hold so much - and this may have to be a 2 disk set to make it worth while, but I was thinking of doing all live commentary that I can find, (several hours of it) and the key press confs - basically from the period from Spirit's landing till Opportunity arrived. There's probably 20hrs of footage, maybe more from that period - so to include it all would be madness - but I could perhaps include much of it as DVD, and then the rest as highly compressed WMV's or similar.

Anyway - opinions, likely sales etc

Doug

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Opinion

Great idea Doug ...
I really enjoyed watching the NOVA DVDs " Mars, dead or alive " and " Welcome to Mars " ... especially the latter one!
Anyway, I believe the MER DVD-set should have some footage of a MER being assembled, tested or being prepared for launch at KSC ... NASA must have some footage.

Likely Sales

As mentioned before, a couple dozen should sell easily here at UMSF ( I would already take 2 ) ... so the first 50 will go fast
Doing this before the other film/dvd makers do, gives it an extra chance for sales outside the forum

Questions

What contribution are You looking for from UMSF forum-members (money-wise or other)

[djellison]

What contribution are You looking for from UMSF forum-members (money-wise or other)

Oh - none This sort of project is my day to day job ( but in the medical field ) so it'll be easy once I have the footage on site

There is probably scope for 4 disks just of pre-launch testing...for instance

"AVC-2003-036-Mars Exploration Rover Raw Footage Highlights Compilation
Edited raw footage of various MER tests conducted during
2002. Includes rover assembly in clean room, parachute drop
test, DRL drop tests, airbag drop tests, cruise stage
assembly and spin tests, spacecraft thermal and vibration
tests, parachute wind tunnel tests.

There's 72 minutes of that.

And it goes on...segment by segment theres 21 mins of cruise stage testing, another 21 in the SAF, 52 minis of WEB building, 57 minutes of the convey taking the hardware from JPL to KSC, 85 mins of Chute tests at Boise ID, 33 minutes of it at Ames, 106 mins of landing site selection - it goes on and on and on.

Just from pre-launch stuff - I could easily fill 4 full DVD's and I'm not sure really how much people would want to see that. The edited 72 minute collection perhaps, but you can see the problem - it could get very big very quickly, without even trying.

Doug