Jim Erickson Quotes (11 Quotes)

We now have to make long-term plans for the vehicles because they may be around for quite a while. Either mission could end tomorrow with a random part failure. With the rovers already performing well beyond their original design lifetimes, having a part wear out and disable a rover is a distinct possibility at any time.

He is persisting in his fears. He was afraid of the police.

It does cause tension in the family when you have to make choices between having Thanksgiving with your family and going off to solve a problem on the spacecraft.

Really, all we need to do is get to get to the beginning of McCool Hill, because we can climb the hill in that position.

The rovers are both in good shape. Normal science activities are increasing as we continue to get additional power out of the solar panels, primarily because the Martian day is getting longer.

Part of the issue is that he did not believe that this was Professor Martin anymore. He thinks that he was confronted with a robot or a person that was controlled by a computer chip that was trying to kill him.

As they age, we learn how to deal with the symptoms of old age whether it's the equivalent of arthritis in our joints or senility in our memory.

This was a great dress rehearsal for the Io encounters. We've been wondering how the spacecraft might hold up when it gets close to Io. This latest brush with radiation makes us think that the odds of survival may be fairly good.

For now, the rovers are in amazingly good shape, ... We're going to work them hard to get as much benefit from them as we can, for as long as they are capable of producing worthwhile science results.

I'm not sure I'd want that, they may be difficult to control.

So far it looks fine, but it will be awhile before we're sure about that arm position. We'll be doing further analysis to see if there are other poses that are better for the arm.