"Whether Curiosity lands successfully or not, we all will arrive at a different place in our lives on Monday morning, and everything we’ve experienced up to this point, the success, the challenges, the nervous excitement, the camaraderie, will be a memory that will fade with time.
I truly hadn’t thought about this. Especially as a scientist on the mission, I’ve been focused mostly on what happens after landing, unlike the many engineers charged with building and testing the rover, or ensuring its safe cruise to Mars and landing. Those engineers will have finished their duties on Sunday, and will join the hundreds of engineers who have already moved on to other projects. But my life will change, too. The years I have spent in conference rooms sweating over details with the engineers, the joy I’ve had in explaining Curiosity’s “terrifying” landing system and thrilling scientific mission (we’re climbing a mountain!) with dozens of public audiences, the trials, heartache, and pride in our team’s journey to this point, those chapters all will close on Sunday. It made me realize how much my life has become intertwined with this mission and with these people. When all goes well on Sunday, we’ll celebrate like crazy, but then that eight years of our journey together will be complete. Life indeed will be different."
http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/mars-curiosity-scientist-reflects.php?ref=fpnewsfeed
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