GFX LOWER THIRD: OPPORTUNITY TESTING SPIRIT TESTING
GFX LOWER THIRD: OPPORTUNITY TESTING
PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: Opportunity test bed: “3, 2, 1.” “Thank you!” DOUG ELLISON: And every test, Opportunity came through with flying colors. So even before they left this planet, Spirit was troublesome, Opportunity was Little Miss Perfect.
GFX LOWER THIRD: 7 MONTHS UNTIL LAUNCH
KOBIE BOYKINS: So, after so much time testing and building our rovers, now it’s time to put Oppy on the ground. This is the very first time we breathe life into the rover. Move. Her first steps. I’m getting tingly. ’Cause it was like “Ohhh it’s alive!”
ROVER TESTING
STEVE SQUYRES: She becomes almost like a living thing to you.
A real living robot that you can imagine going to Mars and doing the things that you’ve dreamed of doing there. To say it’s like a child being born would be to trivialize parenthood, but it feels sort of like that.
ROB MANNING: But you feel like it’s now clear your child is really ready for this wild and woolly world.
STEVE SQUYRES: Had we done all the testing we wanted to do? Absolutely not. But eventually you just run out of time. And it was time to fly.
ROB MANNING
STEVE SQUYRES
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