The Launch of ExoMars | MARS

I’ve been thinking about ExoMars more
than sixteen years so that’s that over
there right
serious guys what we’re doing this is
really rather difficult a lot of things
have to go right when one minute
building the instruments is hard and
maybe if you haven’t had enough test
time and you’re thinking to yourself oh
my goodness you know it’s got to go on
another one of these damn rockets
launches are inherently dangerous
there’s always some sort of a risk that
something blowing up as long as the
thing doesn’t blow up and I’m too close
to it the Americans have had burgers the
Europeans have had failures the Russians
of had failures we check things we
recheck them we have checkers checking
the checkers
and how much is enough to ensure that
you don’t fail
geez look at that
we have to wait a little bit
things deploy and then we’re on our way
to Mars
that gets you sword
[Applause]
you had this incredible number of people
all working to send something to a
strange kind of pinkish dot in the sky I
really like not seeing Mars as a
challenge to overcome but Mars as an
opportunity to unite people together in
a peaceful way and give our species a
goal you’re giving people something
optimistic to pursue
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