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  2. Mark Rober - Wikipedia

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    Mark Rober. Mark Rober (born March 11, 1980 [4][5][6]) is an American YouTuber, engineer, inventor, and educator. He is known for his YouTube videos on popular science and do-it-yourself gadgets. Before he became a YouTuber, Rober was an engineer with NASA for nine years, where he spent seven years working on the Curiosity rover at NASA's Jet ...

  3. Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Wikipedia

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    Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center in La Cañada Flintridge, California, Crescenta Valley, United States. [1] Founded in 1936 by Caltech researchers, the laboratory is now owned and sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and administered and managed by the California Institute of Technology.

  4. Phoenix (spacecraft) - Wikipedia

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    NASA TV broadcast of Phoenix landing (YouTube copy of NASA broadcast from 8 minutes before until 2 minutes after touchdown) Blogs of the scientists and engineers of the Phoenix team from launch through the end of the mission. Archived July 28, 2010, at the Wayback Machine; Other links. Complete List of Works on the Phoenix DVD

  5. The Power of 10: Rules for Developing Safety-Critical Code

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    The ten rules are: [1] Avoid complex flow constructs, such as goto and recursion. All loops must have fixed bounds. This prevents runaway code. Avoid heap memory allocation. Restrict functions to a single printed page. Use a minimum of two runtime assertions per function. Restrict the scope of data to the smallest possible.

  6. Opportunity (rover) - Wikipedia

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    Opportunity, also known as MER-B (Mars Exploration Rover – B) or MER-1, is a robotic rover that was active on Mars from 2004 until 2018. [1] Opportunity was operational on Mars for 5111 sols (14 years, 138 days on Earth). Launched on July 7, 2003, as part of NASA 's Mars Exploration Rover program, it landed in Meridiani Planum on January 25 ...

  7. 2010: The Year We Make Contact - Wikipedia

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    2010: The Year We Make Contact (or simply 2010) is a 1984 American science fiction film written, produced, shot and directed by Peter Hyams.Serving as a sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey and based on Arthur C. Clarke's 1982 sequel novel, 2010: Odyssey Two, the film follows a joint American and Soviet crew who are sent to Jupiter to discover the reason behind the ...

  8. Deep Impact (spacecraft) - Wikipedia

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    Deep Impact. (spacecraft) Deep Impact was a NASA space probe launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on January 12, 2005. [4] It was designed to study the interior composition of the comet Tempel 1 (9P/Tempel), by releasing an impactor into the comet. At 05:52 UTC on July 4, 2005, the Impactor successfully collided with the comet's nucleus.

  9. Grand Tour program - Wikipedia

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    The Grand Tour is a NASA program that would have sent two groups of robotic probes to all the planets of the outer Solar System. It called for four spacecraft, two of which would visit Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto, while the other two would visit Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune. The enormous cost of the project, around $1 billion, led to its ...