Rethink from NASA’s epic touchdown Firm rover Science and spaceflight on Mars will expand beyond communities, President J. Biden said.
The Commander-in-Chief held a video conference with scientists and engineers on Thursday (March) at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, which manages Persians’ 7 2.7 billion missions. During the 10-minute chat, Biden congratulated and thanked the team April 18 landing, Emphasizing that it has come at a crucial time for the nation.
“It’s bigger than constantly landing on Mars,” the president told JPL director Mike Watkins, calling on mission guidance, navigation and control operations Swati Mohan and others, whatever you can do. See by Sea-Spain. “It’s about the American spirit. And you brought it back. In that moment you brought it back to what we desperately needed.”
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Then tell Biden a short story. The head of state – he did not recognize anything – recently told him that the US was not what it used to be: Is organized, ”said the head of state.
Surely the dramatic sky-crane landing, he said, would help turn that negative impression, where democracy would be pushed to a world where democracy is on the march, he added.
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“There’s a big fight going on. Your kids are studying that when democracy is re-established it can do anything, as opposed to self-rac action that can command things.” “I can’t tell you right now that I believe historians will write about what you did at the moment you did it.”
“You should take such great pride, such great pride, in what you have done.” “We can land a rover on Mars, we can defeat an epidemic, and with science, hope and vision, there is nothing we can’t do like the country.”
Standing diligently on the 28-mile-wide (45-kilometer) floor of the Jezero Crater, sheltered by a deep lake and river delta billions of years ago. The main tasks of the car-sized robot include destroying the Jezero rocks for ancient symbols. Mars life And collecting and caching specimens for future return to Earth, Probably early 2031.
In the photo: NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover mission to the Red Planet
Biden looks set to accelerate these goals. During Thursday’s JPL call, he mentioned that he recently convened a group of House of Representatives to discuss infrastructure issues. One member of Congress was impressed Moon Rock in Oval Office Fees“And I said jokingly, ‘You haven’t seen anything yet. Wait until you see what comes home from Mars.’
And Thursday’s call was not the first celebration of Biden’s Persians landing success. For example, he put one Congratulations to congratulate NASA chief Steve Zurzic On February 18, immediately after the rover landed.
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