Fact: we know many women and non-European Americans more intelligent than most anyone on this panel. You probably do to. What is wrong with JPL’s ability to attract intelligent women?!?!?!? All white?? Are these people in a time warp?? It’s at the point someone should be fired for this. Mars attracts female space enthusiasts and persons of all ethnicities. So what’s wrong with Cal Tech?!?!? Inexcusable. We paid for this. Many engineers are more than qualified to be on this panel. Anyone walking onto that stage could have said, “Wait a moment, this is wrong. Let ___ take my place. [a long time ago]” It must not happen again. Absolutely shameful. Like something from the 1950s. Regressive, obscene, embarrassing and stupid. Unacceptable. What the hell went wrong here. Shesh. A shocking disappointment. This is not what Mars is about. Immediately alienates most of America, would-be-space-enthusiasts, worldwide, and sets us all back! Very disappointing.
rover had entered the atmosphere, or that the parachute had been deployed, cheers roared
out. Each step closer to a successful landing increased the intensity. For those walking down the
street unaware of the events unfolding before them, it must have seemed odd… Then the
largest roar of all broke out, as everyone heard confirmation that Curiosity was safely on the
Martian surface. Cheers of ‘NASA — NASA — NASA’ and ‘Science! Science! Science!’ broke out. It
was an intensely emotional release: NASA knew the risks, and, so it seemed, did the crowd.”