PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: “RT, go for launch.”
KOBIE BOYKINS: I have raised this child. That’s sort of what it feels like. And now it’s that child’s moment to shine. STEVE SQUYRES: But it was hard to say goodbye. These rovers, I devoted 16 years of my life to them. And then you put them on top of a rocket and you shoot them to space and you’re never gonna see them again. JENNIFER TROSPER: For Opportunity, I was out with my family and we were watching the launch from the same launchpad my dad had launched his missions from. And he had since passed away. And he was the proudest dad anybody could ever have. It was just very emotional, for me, for my mom, for my family, to just see how he had encouraged and inspired me to do space exploration.
KOBIE BOYKINS: T-minus 10, you start freaking out.
PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: Launch control: “9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, engine start, and lift off.”
GFX LOWER THIRD: OPPORTUNITY / SPIRIT
KOBIE BOYKINS: You fear that rocket. “No firecracker, no firecracker, no firecracker…”
PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: “[unintelligible]. Vehicles responding. Vehicles recovering very nicely from the liftoff [unintelligible].” ASHITEY TREBI-OLLENNU: I don’t know whether I shed a tear but, I think that, you know, this rocket is carrying my hopes and dreams.
ILM SFX ANIMATION: EXTERIOR WS: Spirit traveling through space.
ILM SFX ANIMATION: [continuing]...pan with Oppy to a wide shot of the rovers’ path to Mars, Spirit leading the way in the distance. KOBIE BOYKINS: The travel time to Mars for both rovers was six and a half months. Spirit and Opportunity were only three weeks behind each other. So they’re not super far apart in celestial terms. ASHITEY TREBI-OLLENNU: So we have a trajectory to Mars, and we want to make sure that we’re following that road to Mars as we move along.
And, you know, it’s very difficult to describe. But you feel your life’s work in the rocket.
GFX SPACE JOURNEY MAP
ASHITEY TREBI-OLLENNU: It is like you’re in Los Angeles and you want to hit a golf ball to hit the door handle of Buckingham Palace. And that’s what we’re trying to do.
GFX LOWER THIRD: OPPORTUNITY / SPIRIT
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