JPL and the Space Age: The Pathfinders

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  • @davidly138
    @davidly138 2 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Hearing Neil's voice gives me goosebumps. I remember listening to all of the codex entries in all 3 Mass Effect games and Neil's voice is perfect.

    • @TarisRedwing
      @TarisRedwing ปีที่แล้ว

      I always hear him on the Nasa channel and wondered if it was him as I never see him credited anywhere.

    • @whirledpeas3477
      @whirledpeas3477 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@TarisRedwingWho?

    • @peytonsawyer562
      @peytonsawyer562 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@whirledpeas3477 Neil Ross is the narrator

  • @kao354
    @kao354 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Thank you! Finally story of Pathfinder+Sojourner is told by JPL itself on TH-cam. The video is great! Thank you again!

  • @japroz
    @japroz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Im in love with this JPL and the space age series

  • @engineeranonymous
    @engineeranonymous 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    These documentaries must be mandatory in Universities as a part of introduction to engineering class. They show the importance of leadership and team work, understanding policy and policy making, why budget matters, how much you can accomplish so much with so little and what is risk taking and what to do when you fail.

  • @claudelebel49
    @claudelebel49 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    An incredibly moving historical capsule. Well done !!

  • @TarrBenceLaszlo
    @TarrBenceLaszlo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    This is an amazing documentary with a very touching happy ending! I was at the edge of my seat watching the EDL! Almost felt like a live broadcast! Congratulazions to JPL for this ground-breaking mission, and also for making this film! THANK YOU!

  • @MrHichammohsen1
    @MrHichammohsen1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This series makes me so emotional! Thank you JPL.

  • @roshaan
    @roshaan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    This mission was why I got interested in space and astronomy. It has literally changed my life!

  • @GibsonGH
    @GibsonGH 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    These docs are fascinating. I remember watching Curiosity's landing live stream years ago. It was maybe the most gripping and monumental stream I have ever witnessed. The dedication and skill of these folks is enormous.

    • @vivigesso3756
      @vivigesso3756 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Prove it was real. Liar

  • @DarkDragonPath
    @DarkDragonPath 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    The part at 56:50 choked me up... Thinking about how poor little Sojourner basically did a "Land Before Time" with their mother(ship) Pathfinder passing away right in front of her, waiting patently by their side before they too finally succumb to the elements. 😢😢😢
    Fantastic, ground-breaking mission though, I grew up on this and other explorations of the cosmos.

    • @Astronetics
      @Astronetics ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Glad I'm not the only one who got emotional at this part. To all the rovers now sleeping on Mars, rest well little ones. You will always be remembered.

    • @adarsh4764
      @adarsh4764 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Question!
      Do you think that when humans finally reach Mars. Should they bring the dead rovers back to life or should they just keep them there as Memorial piece for future Martians to see how they looked at their operational sites?

    • @williamhoward7121
      @williamhoward7121 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I believe it's inevitable that all of the landing sites on Mars and the Moon will be revisited. Many of the rovers will likely be recollected and brought back to Earth eventually. What a Smithsonian exhibition that will be!

  • @RV4aviator
    @RV4aviator 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I love JPL and all it stands for..! Anyone even not interested, or informed about Space Science Engineering, hearing "JPL" immediately says "oh yeah , NASA's Rocket Guys " . When properly funded ( Viking ) heavy landers with lots of data return capacity are delivered. When not funded abundantly ( Pathfinder/Sojourner ) light , data scarce landers are sucessfully delivered. And so onto Spirit and Opportunity, heavier and more successful. And now the gigantic Curiosity and Perseverance Rovers...! In summary, place your bets on JPL, because those brainiacs CAN deliver...!!!!!! 😀 Great doco, thank you...!

  • @talkingmudcrab718
    @talkingmudcrab718 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I freakin love these JPL documentaries. Please keep them coming.

  • @MarkHopewell
    @MarkHopewell 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I remember patiently waiting until the early hours of the morning in the UK to download the first image from Pathfinder's Sojourner rover after it had landed back in 1997. It took almost as long to download the file over a 14K modem!
    Exciting times.

    • @residentfelon
      @residentfelon 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      and a few years later we find out that space is a hoax

  • @miriamherrera2656
    @miriamherrera2656 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you JPL. Tears of happiness uplifted our existence!

  • @robbyirwin4846
    @robbyirwin4846 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    What a awsome story of such a awsome , humble and fun team staying true to them selves!! Wish the whole world would approach stuff like the way this team did!!! Thanks!!

    • @michaelto1975
      @michaelto1975 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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    • @tmo4330
      @tmo4330 ปีที่แล้ว

      Exactly! And the next generation should NOT destroy the technology like we did because it's a painful process to build it back again. The idiots from NASA destroyed the technology to go to the moon, that is why man has been stuck in low earth orbit since 1972.

  • @mikekemble958
    @mikekemble958 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    an exceptional programme, thank you all, from the UK

  • @AdamLaiben
    @AdamLaiben 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This was such a great series. More of this please! Thank you.

  • @randomvariable1836
    @randomvariable1836 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Aaahhh 12:32 that is my brother Sam. He always wanted to be an astronaut ever since he was a young Boy Scout. I remember him showing me the video of the airbag lander test when they drop the scale model onto a huge artificial slope covered with pointy rocks. He did well in life.

  • @windlive04
    @windlive04 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Amazing documentary, in that time I was in my 16 years old with a lot of dream, thanks from Brazil,!

  • @twt3716
    @twt3716 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Buzz Aldrin's favourite chat up line was 'I was the first man on the Moon my dear, Neil before me'. Tremendous. Although for quotes you can't beat Churchill. An elderly lady noticing that his trouser flies were open at a party, whispered to him 'Prime minister, I'm afraid the guard house door is open' to which he replied to the rather shocked old lady 'And tell me Madam, is the guard asleep with his head on two sandbags'

  • @ismaelgonzalez6989
    @ismaelgonzalez6989 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Excellent excellent I enjoyed every second of it thank you JPL

  • @DextroDNAOfficial
    @DextroDNAOfficial 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The narrator is the codex reader from Mass Effect!

  • @jimerjam6689
    @jimerjam6689 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Looking back on this with the modern context of curiosity and perseverance, it's so incredible how far we've come

  • @Tiger1x1
    @Tiger1x1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    It's amazing how everyone in this team looks younger than at the time of mission. How can one grow younger...

  • @antoniozambrana1357
    @antoniozambrana1357 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Gracias por compartir con nosotros los esfuerzos de tan maravillosa
    Tecnología

  • @PrabhatKumar-fn4vy
    @PrabhatKumar-fn4vy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for uploading

  • @keithulhu
    @keithulhu 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I will never forget when, on July 4th, 1997, I looked at the front page of my local newspaper and saw a Martian vista that totally blew me away.

  • @adityakrishna4101
    @adityakrishna4101 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What a mission!.... I don't know what to say.... What a Mission!

  • @jerrilehane7815
    @jerrilehane7815 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I originated the Mars rovers concepts/designs 1987 as Ghostwriter for Star Trek,sending my drawings for JPL rovers &orbiters 1987 April along with Trek material for Gene to relay to JPL since he was well-known and a celeb to many Jpl workers. Jerry Lehane Mars.

  • @tammyl3726
    @tammyl3726 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I loved watching this. So inspiring.

  • @omarmuthana5365
    @omarmuthana5365 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So amazing I hope sometime will get there thanks for sharing this video

  • @RoCkShaDoWWaLkEr
    @RoCkShaDoWWaLkEr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Even though Jack Parsons got pushed out of the company he created in a field he created I think he would be proud of what's been accomplished, the first JPL team definitely deserve to be household names.

  • @nabilaamir123
    @nabilaamir123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Curiosity , opportunity , spirit , perseverance , ingenuity and then finally humans on Mars

    • @shivammathur1583
      @shivammathur1583 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I mean robotic missions like those will always be sent but I guess

    • @fotmheki
      @fotmheki 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      There are already new multicopter proposed for the very next Mars mission, I suppose at least another 2 or 3 robotic missions are to be expected before a possible human landing

    • @shivammathur1583
      @shivammathur1583 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@fotmheki there is that and new rover concepts. I’m literally working on one with NASA lol

    • @theninjahackermanguydude
      @theninjahackermanguydude 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It takes Curiosity, Opportunity. Perseverance, Ingenuity, and then finally humans on mars.

    • @shivammathur1583
      @shivammathur1583 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@theninjahackermanguydude and more man

  • @kathleendavis63
    @kathleendavis63 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You guys are truly amazing!!!

  • @marchu0909
    @marchu0909 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It’s really exciting to work with such a team.

  • @noorjood7461
    @noorjood7461 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    سبحان الله الخالق الجبار ..
    هذا خلق الله ..

    • @TheStockwell
      @TheStockwell 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Unless this God fella is funding NASA, I'm pretty sure all of this is a result of human ability, determination, and funding from various government departments. 🚀

  • @ruledbysaturn
    @ruledbysaturn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What a great made for tv fiction.
    NASA deserves an award.

  • @ajsalvlk
    @ajsalvlk ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow better than any movie i have seen.

  • @AlphaKingofGlory
    @AlphaKingofGlory 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you soooooo much for all you have done and are doing.

  • @pm7579
    @pm7579 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Excellent video. Thank you

  • @jammer2isme
    @jammer2isme 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i lost soooo much sleep that 4th of July ... but so worth it. went to work that night thinking of the possibilities and didn't even need caffeine.

  • @gazzacroy
    @gazzacroy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    really cool video again. i do love watching these and i learn stuff too :)

  • @JimMcTavish
    @JimMcTavish 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks for this look back at ye olde JPL. Was fixated on Cassini at the time and missed all this. You should put all your old press conferences up, if you still have them. Would be a hoot :)

  • @paulrichards2365
    @paulrichards2365 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I worked with IBM years ago. I remember they said at the time, one of the biggest problems was the documentation.

  • @ismaelgonzalez6989
    @ismaelgonzalez6989 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Watching everybody an excitement after it happens I have to say we were all there with you as humanity makes you feel proud thank you all we were all there with you and we'll always be there with you thank you very much 😂😃😁🙀🙀🥳🥳🥳🥳😃🤗

  • @brucelamberton8819
    @brucelamberton8819 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    GREAT video - thank you very much!

  • @loc4177
    @loc4177 ปีที่แล้ว

    This documentary just captured my heart

  • @jscotty349
    @jscotty349 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    27:14 "People were not interested in whether your were green or purple or blue or female or male or whatever. They were mainly interested, Could you get the job done?" - When America was still a normal country

  • @cogoid
    @cogoid 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great film. Shows how tortuous the path to success was. 19:25 "build it, test it, break it, fix it, do it again."

  • @masterblaster7953
    @masterblaster7953 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    So did we find any Prothean ruins on Mars or a Void Dragon?

  • @BrokiMaform
    @BrokiMaform 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The way we put robots on Mars makes me believe that maybe we might land humans on Mars. Great work JPL 🫡

  • @johnlaccohee-joslin4477
    @johnlaccohee-joslin4477 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I still find it remarkable that the concept of landing,or more importantly, slowing down for entry, always seems to be hard work for a team with more money behind it that any other project, when a single man developes a craft that slows itself down boy folding in have and using its flight surfaces to slow it down as Bert Rutan did in his craft, it worked perfectly,so much so that the craft was made of fibre glass not metal.
    If he can do it why not they??

    • @tbh224
      @tbh224 ปีที่แล้ว

      False equivalency, bro.

  • @paulneale988
    @paulneale988 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Awesome presentation

  • @EpicRobloxianReal
    @EpicRobloxianReal 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    When is the one for Mars polar lander? Or the one for spirit and opportunity??
    Also amazing documentary, I love it

  • @arundhutidas8850
    @arundhutidas8850 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Speechless ❤

  • @scaryb69
    @scaryb69 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    That was cool. Would love to see more of behind the scenes stuff..laboratory, control center, problem solving, landing and scouting footage. Never boring for me. Could watch and study for days. Thanks for this vid.

  • @АлексейГиссарский-ь4у
    @АлексейГиссарский-ь4у 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very interesting!

  • @yokoshibata6661
    @yokoshibata6661 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I can't help but be moved by this affair even now

  • @gigawattbeehot0913
    @gigawattbeehot0913 ปีที่แล้ว

    I respect them , fabulous technology and their Spirits to Science and astronomy and curiosity .
    Human kind has ‘ Curiosity ‘ , it’s tons , curiosity makes people to build up future .
    Pathfinder isn’t only machine to research something on another planet , wisdoms in the Pathfinder , a lot .
    Updating is important .

  • @JesbaamSanchez
    @JesbaamSanchez 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sojourner is the true star here!

  • @kennethstammers5801
    @kennethstammers5801 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Brilliant (nuff said ! )

  • @aternias
    @aternias ปีที่แล้ว +1

    These guys are rockstars

  • @AlphaKingofGlory
    @AlphaKingofGlory ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good job Dan 3:44

  • @AlphaKingofGlory
    @AlphaKingofGlory ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Alright nasa we need some equipment

  • @davidhuffman4036
    @davidhuffman4036 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The problems with companies like this is there is too many people involved in the projects. Some hate doing alot of work to be part of something great, and lots of people are hired to achieve this. Money is paid for by the projects. Half as many people needed to achieve the task at hand and less errors are accumulated in doing so. Too many errors to fix and too many people to go through to figure it out. Like having 10 surgeons for a 1 surgeon operation

  • @mikekincaid7412
    @mikekincaid7412 ปีที่แล้ว

    If I could start over this would be my career path.. there folks were crazy.. fun and way smart

  • @aternias
    @aternias ปีที่แล้ว

    so much doubt by everyone, yet they actually did it. never doubt engineers

  • @Lion_McLionhead
    @Lion_McLionhead 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lions just love the vintage UNIX screenshots. They showed a tiny bit of the unpaid for XV program which caused a scandal. The late 90's were the peak of UNIX as a desktop.

  • @aimatters5600
    @aimatters5600 ปีที่แล้ว

    this is just wow.

  • @garrusvakarian9896
    @garrusvakarian9896 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    N7DAY!!!

    • @MetallicaRules
      @MetallicaRules 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hey Garrus. Glad to see you take a break from your calibrations to watch this video

  • @Milkyway-no8eb
    @Milkyway-no8eb 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great 😁🔥

  • @aghilanmayan97
    @aghilanmayan97 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You should take a movie of this🔥😎

  • @bphenry
    @bphenry 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    36:00 - All I could think of was, "Waht if that plane went down." 😲

  • @juancarloshumbertomarquezs9942
    @juancarloshumbertomarquezs9942 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Gracias !!!! ME inspiran , NOS inspiran!! Llegar a Marte no es tan sencillo como decirlo !! Pero estén seguros de nuestro respeto y admiración porque USTEDES lo hicieron POSIBLE !!! BRAVO BRAVO !! DESDE TUCUMÁN - ARGENTINA !! LA PATRIA DEL Ingeniero Miguel San Martín y tantoss otros científicos FEÑICITACIONES!!! GENIOSSSS!!!!

  • @vikramanand4723
    @vikramanand4723 ปีที่แล้ว

    So much luck has also played for these missions and will do so in space missions to come

  • @danielwesterhouse8802
    @danielwesterhouse8802 วันที่ผ่านมา

    i was wondering who to contact about the new ai robots being sent to mars ? is this on the table, do we have a group to test the parameters, is it even something that has been considered?

  • @andrewcapilli8379
    @andrewcapilli8379 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What will we DO with these Rover's when Mars is fully colonised..?
    I think we should build museums/enclosures at least to preserve the legacy of our journey.
    I don't think they should be moved...
    They should stay exactly where they are.
    🇦🇺🤙

  • @lucianobernardodiasbernard5551
    @lucianobernardodiasbernard5551 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Gostei!

  • @SuperJuntax
    @SuperJuntax 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    18:29 this guy already used a small type mobile phone, wow

    • @thecyanadon
      @thecyanadon 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ooof, have you heard of a flip phone?

  • @josephdonais4778
    @josephdonais4778 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    "Faster, better, cheaper... it is okay to fail... but don't".

  • @aghilanmayan97
    @aghilanmayan97 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    TONY SPEAR 😎AKA 😎TONY STARK 🔥

  • @jerrilehane7815
    @jerrilehane7815 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    It was my idea and request to land Pathfinder Sojourner on Mars July 4,1997,as I wrote in April 1987

  • @johnpatricklim4509
    @johnpatricklim4509 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Then mark wattney used the pathfinder to communicate to earth again...

  • @101shapshifter
    @101shapshifter 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    After doing the math, i was 7 months and 1 day old when Pathfinder landed.

  • @herogolf
    @herogolf ปีที่แล้ว +1

    .in Pasadena California!??? Come and challenge me

  • @DavidGalich77
    @DavidGalich77 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Contempt prior to investigation. God Bless ~~ The U.S.! ~~ NASA TOO! ;)

  • @agena6594
    @agena6594 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    32:12 _"If only you knew how bad things really are"_

  • @王志杰-q2o
    @王志杰-q2o 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    伟大的航天工程

  • @thatguysayz
    @thatguysayz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I hear the budget is so tight since covid that they are considering sending everything up through Southwest airlines 🤣🤣..incredible feat considering the obstacles.

  • @Awesomes007
    @Awesomes007 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why is an airbag landing so much less expensive than the alternatives?

  • @henrivanbemmel
    @henrivanbemmel ปีที่แล้ว

    In this series a theme of impossible timelines, budget and major stress is repeatedly stressed. Perhaps JPL had no choice, but to work under such conditions, but trying figure out these highly complex machines and missions with technically incompetent bureaucrats breathing down your neck seems to be more of an NFL locker room than a technical lab of a major university. Perhaps this appeals to some but tired and stressed people make mistakes as well. Regardless, the infighting and outfighting with NASA HQ does not paint an appealing picture of such a workplace.

  • @AlphaKingofGlory
    @AlphaKingofGlory ปีที่แล้ว

    Right 1:09 the truth of the awaking

  • @MiG-25IsGOAT
    @MiG-25IsGOAT 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "That silly little rover wans't popular with anybody". LOL

  • @replica1052
    @replica1052 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    to surrect planets is how to live in a universe - mars belongs to life

    • @replica1052
      @replica1052 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      (once it rains fish can survive mars nature)

  • @markbass_trojanthinking
    @markbass_trojanthinking 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    After watching this when I said I watched it but did not seem to register although same account? I wonder if you knew something about things more recent. Mars squeezed in. Modus operandi comes to mind- there is even a mission carp diem that phrase began everything that 1kb file the dreams😢 😂😅❤ thanks

  • @scott83074
    @scott83074 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    2 places in the U.S. to go find the best among us....Farms and NASA

  • @mikekincaid7412
    @mikekincaid7412 ปีที่แล้ว

    What is refreshing to see about this outfit is they are not a bunch of stiff shirts that were full of themselves

  • @ERS8
    @ERS8 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ❤️

  • @marialuciarobimdasilva5567
    @marialuciarobimdasilva5567 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    👏👏❤

  • @-Gunnarsson-
    @-Gunnarsson- 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Scientists are kids playing around.