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Discovery

“Faster, Better, Cheaper”

Discovery

BBC

Science, Technology

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Kevin Fong explores the success and failure of NASA’s missions to Mars

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0:00.0

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0:03.0

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0:09.8

podcasts.

0:10.6

You're with the BBC. broadcasts.

0:15.0

You're with the BBC. You know, welcome to Jupiter.

0:17.0

The brilliant Juno Mission to Jupiter.

0:20.0

This is the sort of thing we've come to expect from the rocket

0:25.0

scientists at NASA. But for a while, in the last decade of the 20th century, that just wasn't

0:30.8

the case. I'm Dr. Kevin Fong and this is the second program in our series

0:35.4

The Truth about Success and Failure in Medicine in which I'm looking out across

0:40.3

the boundaries between the medical profession and other industries for valuable lessons

0:44.7

that might be of use to us all.

0:47.4

This program tells us about how NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory endured a decade of repeated failure and then recovered,

0:55.0

rose from the ashes of defeat to deliver one of the most spectacular missions in the history

0:59.9

of planetary exploration.

1:02.1

Mars Science Laboratory.

1:05.0

Thrusters have been re-enabled, we will control our attitude on shoots.

1:07.8

We are decelerating.

1:08.9

In some sense, the failure or success of the mission is already preordained.

1:13.6

It's already happened.

1:14.8

We're down to 90 meters per second at an altitude of 6.5 kilometers in setting.

1:18.8

If there is a mistake and there will be mistakes,

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