[meteorite-list] President Obama Calls NASA's Mars Rover Team Today

From: GREG LINDH <geeg48_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 21:52:08 -0700
Message-ID: <BLU125-W125E872E74CCC450FC17FEC9B70_at_phx.gbl>

  
That's nice, but NASA and our space program have pretty much been eviscerated. Americans will be first to walk on Mars? Really?

Greg L.


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> From: baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:00:56 -0700
> Subject: [meteorite-list] President Obama Calls NASA's Mars Rover Team Today
>
>
> http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-240
>
> President Obama Calls NASA's Mars Rover Team Today
> Jet Propulsion Laboratory
> August 13, 2012
>
> [Photo]
> President Barack Obama talks on the phone with NASA's Curiosity Mars
> rover team President Barack Obama talks on the phone with NASA's
> Curiosity Mars rover team aboard Air Force One during a flight to Offutt
> Air Force Base in Nebraska, Aug. 13, 2012. (Official White House Photo
> by Pete Souza)
>
> PASADENA, Calif. - President Barack Obama called members of NASA's
> Curiosity Mars rover team at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in
> Pasadena, Calif. on Monday to congratulate them on the "incredibly
> impressive" mission.
>
> An audio recording of the call and video recording of the JPL team's
> portion of the call is available at
>
> http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2468166 .
>
> "We could not be more excited," said the President, telling the team
> that "it's really mind boggling what you've been able to accomplish."
>
> The president also noted his administration's focus on engineering and
> science and math and said that Curiosity is inspiring kids across the
> country.
>
> "You know, they're telling their Moms and Dads they want to be part of a
> Mars mission, maybe even the first person to walk on Mars," said the
> president. He also said that the quest for knowledge represented by
> missions like Curiosity is "really what makes us best as a species, this
> curiosity that we have and this yearning to discover and know more."
>
> President Obama's call came a week after Curiosity landed on the Red
> Planet. Curiosity carries the most advanced science payload ever used on
> Mars' surface. During the next two years, it will use its 10 instruments
> to investigate whether conditions have been favorable for microbial life
> and for preserving clues in the rocks about possible past life.
>
> In addition to praising the team's hard work, the president also joked
> about finding Martians and noted the popularity of the "Mohawk guy,"
> flight director Bobak Ferdowsi.
>
> "You guys are a little cooler than you used to be," he said.
>
> For more information about NASA's Curiosity mission, visit:
> http://www.nasa.gov/mars and http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl .
>
> Curiosity was designed, developed and assembled at JPL, which also is
> where the rover's mission control is located. The California Institute
> of Technology in Pasadena manages JPL for NASA.
>
> Veronica McGregor 818-354-9452
> Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
> Veronica.mcgregor at jpl.nasa.gov
>
> Michael Cabbage 202-358-1600
> NASA Headquarters, Washington
> mcabbage at nasa.gov
>
> 2012-240
>
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