Subj : 7 minutes of terror
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Feb 21 2021 09:04:00

Hello Wilfred!

** On Sunday 21.02.21 - 11:06, Wilfred wrote to August:

 AA>> I watched a recorded copy of one with a young well-spoken lady
 AA>> introducing different engineers and asking good questions.

 WvV> That probably was before the landing fase?

She covered the whole thing.  During the most of the "7 minutes"  
part, one of the NASA engineers (the one with a dot on her  
forehead) provided the real-time commentary, but she was always  
behind on the numbers we saw on the screen.

 AA>> Sometimes they showed something that looked like a panel
 AA>> of different analog/digital meters.  i wish they had kept
 AA>> those on the screen ALL the time in the lower third or
 AA>> something.

 WvV> I was annoyed by that too. Because that was the only way
 WvV> to track the progress of the landing. But they switched
 WvV> around to views of the people, which was totally boring...

I would have thought that they would have had a producer that  
understood those things and would maintain the gauges on the  
screen all the time.  It could have been not unlike what they do  
on sports shows and elections with the numbers updating on the  
screen all the time.

 AA>> The 7 minutes of terror didn't seem so terrifying without that.

 WvV> Indeed.

Too bad they designed the jetpack to be discarded. Why couldn't  
it be designed to land safely (farther away from the rover,  
ofcourse) and then have wheels that could unfold. Then it could  
be another device that could have cameras on it.

Their common practice to discard spent equipment like that on  
foreign soil makes me feel not so bad having my fields littered  
with old cars and tires.  :D



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