Episode 210: NASA’s Mission to Mars – Perseverance

Newt's World

Gingrich 360

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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On February 18, 2021, the rover Perseverance and the small robotic helicopter Ingenuity landed on Mars as part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, led by the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California. Newt’s guest is Dr. Adam Steltzner, Chief Engineer for the Mars 2020 Project, Perseverance Rover at JPL. He describes the mission and what we hope to achieve and discover next.

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0:00.0	On this episode of Nuts World.
0:02.6	We choose to go to the moon.
0:05.6	We choose to go to the moon,
0:07.6	investigate and do the other things.
0:09.9	Not because they are easy,
0:12.0	but because they are hard.
0:13.8	Because that goal will serve to organize
0:17.7	and measure the best of our energies and skills.
0:21.2	Fifty years ago, one small step for man
0:24.3	became one giant leap for mankind.
0:26.3	And now has come the time for us to make the next giant leap.
0:31.0	And return American astronauts to the moon,
0:34.6	establish a permanent base there
0:37.2	and develop the technologies to take American astronauts
0:40.9	to Mars and beyond.
0:42.8	About 20 meters off the surface.
0:45.0	Tango Delta.
0:46.4	Tatsun confirmed.
0:47.6	The service takes place on the surface of Mars,
0:51.5	ready to begin seeking the change of past life.
1:02.6	I've been fascinated by space since my earliest childhood
1:06.1	when I would read coming books about Martian invasions of Earth.
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