R E A D Y TO LAUNCH
GFX LOWER THIRD: MORNING OF LAUNCH KENNEDY SPACE CENTER
PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE KOBIE BOYKINS: “We’re out here at 5:30 in the morning.
But, you know, for us this is a lot of time, a lot of hours, a lot of sleepless nights coming together. So, sort of surreal, I don’t know if it’s really gonna happen yet. It’s like the whole butterfly thing going on.”
PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE ROB MANNING: “Lucky peanuts.”
ROVER LAUNCH
JENNIFER TROSPER: So Spirit would launch first, and Opportunity, three weeks later.
GFX LOWER THIRD: SPIRIT LAUNCH, JUNE 10, 2003
GFX LOWER THIRD: OPPORTUNITY LAUNCH, JULY 7, 2003
PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: “This is Delta launch control at T-minus 8 minutes 40 seconds.”
JENNIFER TROSPER: And, I was in the control room for Spirit at JPL. And I actually like it when I have a job to do. Because then I’m focused, and it’s a little harder to get emotional because you have something you have to focus on. I’m a farm girl from Ohio. I grew up raising sheep, pigs, cows. And my dad had worked in the Army Corps of Engineers on the very first rockets. And he would just tell these amazing stories. But, aerospace
JPL TEAM AT ROVER LAUNCH
LUCKY PEANUTS
engineering was not something girls around me did. So I just couldn’t imagine that I would ever have the opportunity to send a rover to Mars.
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