The astrobots are on Mars and back on our show. This is planetary radio. Radio.

Hi, everyone. Yes, Biff and Sandy are intrepid astrobots are on Mars.

This week we'll begin to visit with them again. intrepid astrobots are on Mars.

This week we'll begin to visit with them again

and review their wild rides.

One of the guys they can thank

for getting them there safely will also be our guest.

Surely you remember Wayne Lee and his American Flag shirt.

The chief engineer for entry, descent, and landing joins us in just a minute. First, here's

a quick visit with one of last week's student astronauts. I'll

be right back. My name is I'm

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I'm 17 years old. I live in the Vita in Poland and I'm one of the

student astronauts. The work at JPL was a wonderful experience and really a magnificent adventure full of surprises.

The Mars Exploration Rover team is really an international team of scientists because you've got people from all over

the world, not only from Europe, like from Denmark, from Germany, but you've got scientists from India from Japan so it's really a

magnificent thing to work in such a team truly the nationality is not what matters. What matters, it's that you're

from Earth and you're exploring Mars. When I'm back to Poland, I have several press conferences on my experiences here, Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Additionally, I'm going to talk about it with my friends, talk about it on internet chats and I'm having a visit at the Ministry of Education with

our ministers so that will be plenty of media coverage on this team.

So many of us watch the glorious landings of spirit and opportunity and are now watching the beautiful images and startling discoveries made by the Mars Exploration Rovers.

It may be too easy to forget what got us to this point. The years

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