ウィスパリング同時通訳研究会コミュのNASA Press Conference　After Perseverance Rover Lands on Mars

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Jia-Rui Cook: (00:00)
Hello and welcome to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, where we have just landed the most sophisticated and most capable rover yet on the surface of Mars, the Perseverance Rover. I’m Jia-Rui Cook of JPL’s digital news and media office, and I’ll be your host today as we gather reactions from our key players from the landing and also give a glimpse of what’s to come. So because of the coronavirus pandemic, everything’s going to look a little different today. We have our masks on and the layout is a little different, but I want to introduce our speakers to you.
(01:31)
So standing on the floor of Von Karman Auditorium, we have Steve Jurczyk, NASA’s acting administrator. We also have Mike Watkins, the director of JPL. And then we also have John McNamee Perseverance’s project manager. Up on the stage, we have Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate. We have Lori Glaze, NASA’s planetary science director. We have Matt Wallace, the Perseverance deputy project manager; and Al Chen, entry, descent and landing lead; Ken Farley, the Perseverance project scientist; and then coming from our surface operations area, we have Jennifer Trosper, deputy project manager. And over here, we have a special group on our video conference. We have a group of the Perseverance team members. All right, so we are going to be taking questions during this briefing, so if you’re a member of the media and you’re on our phone lines, press star-one and you’ll be put into the queue. And if you’re on social media, use the hashtag #CountdownToMars. But before I turn it over the podium, I just wanted to take one minute to recognize what a thrilling day today has been. We now have the most ambitious rover yet on the surface of Mars. Congratulations.
Speaker 1: (02:57)[inaudible 00:02:57].

Jia-Rui Cook: (02:57)All right, I’m going to turn the podium over to Steve Jurczyk.
Steve Jurczyk: (03:22)
Wow. I mean, just an amazing, incredible day. I could not be more proud of the team and what they’ve done, what they’ve accomplished under challenging circumstances. I also have to tell you that about an hour after landing, I got a phone call from the President of the United States, and his first words were “Congratulations, man,” and I knew it was him. I wasn’t getting [inaudible 00:03:49]. Only a president can say “Congratulations, man.” He talked about how proud he was of what we accomplished, and he wanted me to send my his regards to Percy, and he wanted to congratulate the team. He wanted me to congratulate the team for him. He does want to congratulate the team personally, and I told him we will make that happen, and so looking forward to having the President of United States congratulate the team this week.
(04:21)
Nine successful landings on Mars. The only nation that’s been able to do that. Just incredible. Thousands of people working on this to make this happen at the Jet Propulsion Lab, at NASA Centers, with our industry partners and international partners. I want to call out one of our other government agency partners. The Department of Energy Develops the radioisotope thermo generators first, the RTDs that power Curiosity and are powering Perseverance, and it’s a great partnership, so thank you to our DoE colleagues. This mission is amazing on its own. Science, technology and caching samples to bring back to earth, but it’s also part of our bigger exploration plans, right? Which involve really understanding Mars and the evolution of Mars and whether there was life, ancient life, but also preparing for eventually human missions to Mar(05:18)
And so this is one step along the way of our journey to accomplish that goal, and it’s a major step, and we’ve embarked on that. We’ve taken the first steps in embarking on that journey. Again, I just am … I’m amazed that everything went pretty much according to plan, and when I heard the touchdown signal come back and saw the first image, I cannot tell you how overcome with emotion I was and happy I was. I didn’t get a lot of sleep last night. I think I’m going to get sleep really well tonight, so again, just an amazing day. With that, I would like to turn it over to my colleague and friend, Dr. Zurbuchen.

Thomas Zurbuchen: (06:12)
Well, thanks so much, Steve, and I want to share an event with you that usually happens when I’m by myself. And what you should know is that every time we do a launch or we do a landing, we get two plans. One plan is the one we want to do, and then there’s that second plan, which is right here. That’s the contingency plan. Here is for the contingency plan. All right.
(06:48)
Just about one and a half hours, a little bit more, history happened right here, and I want to play a video that the team put together. Before I do so, I want to just warn you, you may or may not in the last row, see some bent COVID protocols. You should just know that all of us who are involved back there are doubly masked and normally have all the distance in the world, but I will tell you later about my emotions there. But I had to hug some people. Sorry for that, Steve and everybody, but roll the video, please. Let’s live back that moment we had. Go ahead.

Speaker 2: (07:31)We are starting the straighten up and fly right maneuver in preparation for parachute deployed.
NASA Team: (07:36)Yes! Yes!
Speaker 2: (07:38)The navigation has confirmed that the parachute has deployed, and we are seeing significant deceleration. Sky crane maneuver has started about 20 meters off the service.
Speaker 3: (07:50)We’re getting signals from MRO.
Speaker 2: (07:53)
Touchdown confirmed. Perseverance is safely on the surface of Mars and ready to begin seeking the signs of past life.
NASA Team: (08:02)[inaudible 00:08:02].
Speaker 2: (08:04)Looks like we’re getting the first image.
NASA Team: (08:08)Yes!

Thomas Zurbuchen: (08:08)
What an amazing moment. I have to tell you, after I was kind of reacting the first five seconds or so, I was overcome with emotions, frankly, in the back there, and I was tearing up. And, frankly, what I thought about is a statement that was made 20 minutes or so before the moments you just saw when one of the leaders said, “This is the first time for months that we’re all in the same room, and I want to thank you for being here and being part of the team.” Of course, many individuals on the monitor here and otherwise were not in that room, and I just wanted to tell you how proud and so moved I was by that team achieving that amazing success.
(08:54)
I was of a statement of a famous coach who once was asked, “What are the three most important things that create success in the game?” And it turns out the same is true for NASA, and here are the following three in the order of priority: the team, the team, and the team, and I just really want to thank the team for that. Thanks so much. Of course, for me, this is not an end but a beginning. Now, the amazing science starts, and I’m just so looking forward to designs that’s going to come. Every yard on the surface of Mars is a yard of Mars sample return to go collect these precious samples and bring them back to earth.
(09:48)
And, of course, you should know that one of the first tax sack out from international community was from my friend, David Parker, my colleague, over in ESA, who sent his congratulation. I just want to tell him back how excited we are to continue to work with them on this amazing joint mission, this international history-making mission that we’re now endeavoring, of course, with Perseverance right there. But as we’re already starting to develop some of the team members moving over towards Mars sample return, and many concrete steps are also happening, of course, towards another horizon goal, which is human exploration of Mars as well.
(10:29)
I always think of it as there’s a whole bucket of miracles you need to achieve to do that, and we’re taking some miracles off the table, both today but also as we go forward with Mars sample return. So the future of Mars exploration is just so broad and exciting and involves many other nations as well. And leaders, many of them are still in school or even in kindergarten or younger, and those leaders we’re going to need as we do achieve those amazing goals. I want to think of the international partners of Mars 2020 Perseverance, and we had something like 35 vendors from 11 nations that, of course, added up to the nearly thousand within the United States. 11 nations that included a lot of them, and I’ve been in some of these nations, and I know where these pieces are coming from and how proud those nations are.
(11:26)
Of course, over and above that, we have three partners that have contributed instruments: France, Spain, and Norway. And I have texts from our French colleagues, for example. The prime minister was right there with the team and celebrating with them. I’m just so glad for the support in each one of those countries they’re receiving from their governments, and we look forward that each of our contributions, the contributions internationally, and the ones by the team here will provide information on and tell us about Mars and also the future collaboration that will be enabled by the amazing historic feat today.
(12:04)
Mars is always hard. We don’t take this for granted. Landing on Mars is one of the toughest things, even though the team is making it look easy. I have to tell you. I mean, it’s just incredible to me. I’m baffled. I told Steve this morning, I have to get up in the night twice to replace a sweated through wet T-shirt with a new one. I was telling myself I’m pretty calm. Apparently my body did not say so, but this next night, I’m sure I only need one of them as we go forward. That’s in no small way because of my next friend I’m going to introduce to you, which is of course Mike Watkins, who’s the JPL director. Take it away, Mike.

Mike Watkins: (12:49)
Thank you, Thomas. I’d like to welcome everyone virtually to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory here. This room, many of our journalist colleagues have been in this room for landing day. We’ve actually celebrated all of the Mars landings ever accomplished by humankind here in this room, and I miss the fact that you’re not all here with us today. We usually have the lab buzzing with thousands of folks, and because of COVID, we’re doing this remotely, but I hope you still feel a part of this, and certainly feel free to engage us with questions and follow up. On behalf of JPL, I have to say we have a fantastic project team. No question about it, and John McNamee and Matt Wallace will talk a lot more about that team.
(13:31)
But I want to also notice the rest of JPL. It really took a lot of folks working together to make this mission successful, and, of course, we’re working on missions other than Mars Perseverance as well. We had to keep those missions going. We had to keep March 2020 going. We had to use our CIO office to make sure we could all work in a virtual sense, work remotely, and, of course, folks keeping everyone safe in the lab in terms of PPE and facility changes. We sort of had to change the tires while we’re going down the highway starting last year, and we are very proud of having been able to make 2020 a success.
(14:13)
And now that Perseverance is on the surface, I hope you are sharing the magic that I do personally. These first few days on Mars I always think in some sense are the most magical. All of the great panoramas and the color photos and great science and our sample acquisition and the helicopter flight, you will follow along with those and see them in the coming months. But there is something special about the first few days, because we have just landed a representative of the planet earth on a place on Mars that no one has ever been to. No one has ever seen it except from orbital imagery from a few hundred miles up above Mars, and I believe that that magical sense that we bring is a lot of the reason that JPL exists and NASA exists. I and everyone at the lab is very proud to be part of that.
(15:09)
And now to talk more about what we expect to do with this mission on the surface, now that we are safely down, I’d like to turn it over to my colleague, Dr. Lori Glaze, the head of the Planetary Science Division and NASA Headquarters. Thank you.

Lori Glaze: (15:23)
Thanks so much, Mike. Really appreciate it. Yeah, I mean just wow. There’s just so much excitement and emotion here today, and I, of course, have to extend my thanks as well to the entire team who really had to work under adverse conditions over the last year, but have worked hard for the six years prior to that as well and probably even before that leading up to the beginning of when the project got kicked off. I’d also like to make sure I give a little shout out in some thanks to my headquarters staff that support this as well. We all work together.
(16:03)
It’s all one big team, and I wanted to tell the folks here, the Mars 2020 team, that it was just such an honor to be here and be allowed to sit in the control room with you guys. Y’all are incredible. You’re amazing, and I know it wasn’t even the full team there and the full breadth of that team. The capabilities are just astounding, and so I’m just so proud of everything you’ve accomplished, and thank you for letting me be a part of it here today. It is really, truly exciting. Now that we’re on the ground, now the fun really starts, and I loved … You’re going to hear here from Ken in a little bit. We’re talking to him right after landing, and the science team’s already getting started. They’re already working. Ken’s in there looking at the pictures, the first few that we got down, and he’s already looking at them and trying to figure out what we’re going to do and where we are.
(16:54)
So fantastic. I can’t wait to get all the instruments turned on over the next several days and weeks and start collecting data. And in particular over the next few days as we’re getting down all of the imaging and the microphone data that were taken during the descent, I think it’s going to take us all along on that descent. We’re all going to get to experience just exactly what that was like. This will be the first time we’ve ever had that opportunity to not just look at the data that came back and said, “Yes, the parachute deployed,” and “Yes, the sky crane operated correctly.” We’re going to get to see it and live it and participate, every one of us, on that way down. It’s going to be amazing, so really, really looking forward to that.
(17:41)
I’d also like to, in my time here, give a shout out to the more than one million students that joined in for the Mars Student Challenge, and I want to thank you all for … Can we all thank the students that participated? Fantastic. We’re …
(18:03)
Fantastic. We’re just so excited that so many young people around the country and around the world have gotten engaged with this mission. It’s incredibly inspiring. And as Thomas said, it’s your generation that’s going to take us forward. It’s your generation that’s going to be analyzing these samples when they come back to earth. And we’re just so happy to have so much interaction with the students. The Mars Challenge, the student challenge, is still up there and folks can still sign up and still participate in that activity, just continue to participate. (18:41)
With that, I am going to pass things over to John. Thank you so much, John McNamee, who is our project manager. Congratulations, John. Thank you so much.

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