JPL and the Space Age: The Changing Face of Mars

Other than Earth, no planet in our solar system has been so thoroughly or long examined as Mars. For decades, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has continuously explored the Red Planet with an array of orbiters, landers, and rovers.
What laid the groundwork for this unparallel record of exploration? This 90-minute documentary describes the challenges of JPL’s first attempts to send spacecraft to the Red Planet.
For much of human history, Mars was no more than a tiny reddish dot in the sky. But in 1965, the first spacecraft ever to visit Mars, JPL’s Mariner 4, began to change our understanding of the planet with its grainy black and white images. The data from Mariner 4, and from missions that followed, were full of confusing data for scientists to understand.
The Changing Face of Mars reveals, through archival footage and interviews with key scientists and engineers, JPL's first roles in exploring the Red Planet, from Mariner 4, through the 1976 arrival of the Viking orbiters and landers.

[@JohnIwaszko]

Not only the best, the most accurate I have ever seen or read, telling the story accurately and without hype or bias.

[@-julz2032]

So true, right? 😁😂🤣

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

Oh, what memories! I was little, but these missions were what first made me fall in love with science! ❤❤

[@shaunjohnstewart6427]

T a

[@texleeger8973]

I was a NASA-freak kid. I remember when Navy and USAF missiles couldn't get off the ground. But then it became more successful and it was A-OK all the way. Mercury astronauts were superheroes. All liftoffs were TV adventures. And JPL was residence of the gods. It was a time for pride and glory and all the excitement a kid could ever want. It was my time and the memories are sweet.

[@michaeldowney6361]

I was just starting Junior HS when Mariner 4 project was underway. I never dreamed that I would one day work on the manned space program. None of my work would have been possible without the dedicated efforts of those pioneers. Now retired, I hope that, in some small way, my work will help to stir the imagination of some young STEM professional to push the program across the threshold of manned planetary exploration.

[@kennethsnyder9236]

Most definitely enjoyed the detail description of space exploration provided for the public viewing

[@stevenpilling5318]

That was an excellent documentary. It not only brought back memories and answered old questions, but it put a human face on one of the great scientific quests of our times.

[@FredPlanatia]

I really appreciated the part of this report devoted to George Pimentel - when I was at Berkeley he was still active though he'd mellowed after having been diagnosed with cancer. He loved science and yet encouraged junior scientists to remember to live life and balance that against the intense fever that can accompany a devoted career in science. He also knew that it was essential the public be included in the human venture of science, to understand why it brings excitement to help push back against the vast veil of ignorance in human's understanding of the cosmos. I am grateful to have known such a man.

[@harrywalker5836]

we need georges today. not the cia.

[@rogerpr364]

At this livel,, my livel, I always have interest in space science of all kinds, moon, planets, deep space, I.S.S, space ships, Thanks to KZbin I can be updated about space science, about both voyagers, about space telescopes, I believe there's life out there, but way to far of reach for us humans,, Scientists! Keep surching!! I love space science!!!

[@chrisbova9686]

They lost the data that enabled them to get to the moon, and now its to hard.

[@FredPlanatia]

@@chrisbova9686 why is this nonsense all over the internet? After Apollo 17 the public lost interest. The space race was over. And there was no public will to spend such huge sums on repeating the feat. Now the focus is to explore space more cost effectively. The amount of data and insight obtained by robotic exploration far outweighs the costs when compared to bringing humans to the moon in the Apollo era.

[@chrisbova9686]

@@FredPlanatia nice attempt to obscure the ridiculousness of NA$A '$ self admitted blunder, lie, or who cares. What type of fake person still has respect for NASA? Are you sure you are a real boy Pinocchio?

[@WhitefoxSpace]

Man Ray Bradbury, what a legend. People don't speak about him often enough I I think. That poem might be the most beautiful piece of space writing I've ever heard. It starts at 58:36 ish

[@lakecountynaturalist7617]

Look at the expression on Sagan's face as Bradbury reads...that says it all! ❤ Bradbury, ❤Sagan, ❤ Clarke.

[@TheStockwell]

Something I've already written: I teared up at that point. 😿 I met Bradbury at a book signing and it's because of him that I never learned to drive a car. He asked me not to learn how to - and had me shake his hand on it. True story.

[@WhitefoxSpace]

@@TheStockwell Why didn't he want you to learn how to drive a car?

[@cliffb1]

I have really enjoyed each of the videos that JPL have produced about their endeavours in space exploration. Behind the scenes footage, the great scientists and engineers, footage of some of the spacecraft involved, what a treat! i hope the team that makes these videos continue to make many more. After all, the missions and stories behind them must be almost as infinite as space itself. Well done everyone at JPL!

[@spiggensengineering1963]

Man these are great, the humor and emotion behind the engineers and the scientists really get to me. You do an amazing job of showing the humans behind these incredible missions!

[@alq1967]

Incredible, or rather unbelievable, is the key word…

[@enki9006]

It’s ALL LIES my friend

[@PBeringer]

@@enki9006 Ugh ... go away then.

[@tanzanos]

This is how documentaries should be. No sensetionalism, no political correctness; just science. A big thank you.🖖👍

[@mashmash7877]

50 to 60 years later mars is still a mystery with much unanswered questions

[@davidcadman4468]

Just as after 40,000 to 60,000 years later Earth is still holds mystery. But with both, and many more out there, we are discovering more details of the creation of our Universe. It is an exciting time to be a scientist in whatever discipline one chooses.

[@chasetronicsinc7719]

Glad and proud to have served our country as part of the Appollo Moon Program and now I am greatful to see such a good documentary on our Mars ventures. This was well done and very fasinating to watch ! Thanks NASA/JPL !! Special thanks to all the men and women involved in this Mars Mission! Now we are planning to return to the moon and later to Mars with the new "Artimus" Program so, a special shout-out to all those involved ! 😊 God Bless ! 😊 Grandpa Ron

[@kirneyc.thibodeaux649]

I thought this was great. Enjoyed. Im 64 and saw all this really happen and more.

[@frankschmidt5932]

Me too.

[@andrewbarenborg2290]

I must be a serious geek but at 57:07 Ray Bradbury reading that poem really hit the heart strings. I wish we, as a society, still felt the same way about space exploration as past generations did.

[@lakecountynaturalist7617]

Geek out all you want, my friend. Bradbury was a more than excellent writer and an outstanding human being. We will never see the likes of him again.

[@cthoadmin7458]

Yes, I know what you mean. We have lived to see great things, but they don't seem to inspire us the way those missions did. I was a kid when I saw the pictures from the Viking lander coming in but I remember it now, and the inspiration it gave me to be an engineer. We need to dream more, we need to reach for the stars again.

[@davidj231]

True science is far more interesting than any of the fake space, sci-fi BS coming out of NASA. Also, look up the etymology of the word “entertainment” (which is literally all that NASA provides for ~$15B per year in funding.) There’s a reason why things pull at heartstrings but it typically has nothing to do with the objective reality in which we reside.

[@cthoadmin7458]

​@@davidj231 Sorry David I don't know what you mean. Those images coming back from probes are only the tip of the ice burg. Sensors on the probes provide aa wealth of information to scientists, far more than the images alone. Lookup NASA's origins program. The possibility of discovering life elsewhere would have a profound impact on objective reality. Who knows what discoveries may come from looking into deep space like the James Webb telescope is now doing. Not to mention the side benefits of technology resulting from better sensors, image processing, electronics, communications, rocketry... all propelled by the desire to look further and discover more. I'd say that was a bargain for $15B a year.

[@TheStockwell]

I teared up at that point. 😿 I met Bradbury at a book signing and it's because of him that I never learned to drive a car. He asked me not to learn how to - and had me shake his hand on it. True story.

[@MarkHopewell]

I wish JPL would produce far more of these documentary presentations. The output from main networks, e.g. CBS, BBC, ABC and such like is very depressing. Far too little of it in far too little detail far too infrequently. Here in the UK, the BBC is pretty well dedicated to cookery programmes and wishy-washy super safe programming. There are less and less opportunities to view deeper science programming. They even tried to cancel the Sky at Night programme a few years back and that was only on for 30 minutes once per month! So, I personally plea to JPL and others to release your own archives and put on the wider public record your work. The deeper the detail the better - from milling out machined spacecraft components to RF theory & design to image processing - the lot! A no holds barred Uber fest of scientific endukgence we can finally get our teeth into. Surely there must be a way to do this as you're the ones with the engineers, materials and researchers right there in the heart of your organisation.

[@chucknaussie]

You express my sentiments very well. I second your motion!

[@williamcrislerjr9699]

Follow the money to access of the pictures

[@lunatom3]

Lovely and wonderful! Brings back my childhood blood-driven drive to become an engineer, aspiring astronaut, etc++. Please share more of this stuff!

[@Gwaithmir]

I still remember getting up at 2:00 a.m. and turning on the TV to see the first pictures from Mars. I was 17 years old at the time. The first couple of pictures had to be extrapolated from the data stream by an artist.

[@JesbaamSanchez]

Please continue with this amazing documentary JPL!

[@maskotep]

Watched this on Discord with a few friends. We were hooked all the way through!

[@billfoster6479]

This is the best documentary I've seen in a long time, I was captivated from start to finish. Having been a very young boy when all this was happening, I had no real concept of just how hard it was. Thank you JPL and thank you NASA.

[@TropicalCoder]

I just saw my whole life pass before my eyes. I witnessed every event on the road to mars, beginning when I was a young man. Before that in my youth I read Bradbury, and in my childhood, Edgar Rice burroughs, and dreamed of mars. This wonderful documentary put that all in perspective for me. Now I continue to follow the adventures of Curiosity and Perseverance, but I am jaded. This planet is a barren desert. After all that effort, there is nothing there for us.

[@tycannah4271]

ditto

[@davidmorf5869]

Actually, there is something -- a graphic warning for our own future if we don't act now to address the pollution driving climate change.

[@FredPlanatia]

Well, I'd say the dreams of our collective childhood have been vanquished by the intrepid dedication to know the truth. Amazingly, Mars has been like Pandora's box. Each time we go back there are new surprises. Mars past being the biggest question mark. There was flowing water there billions of years ago, great seas or even an ocean existed and so the climate must have been more temperate and the atmosphere thick enough to shield the surface. Even now they have found evidence of water under the surface. So the question "Was there ever life there?" is unanswered to this day. We just never knew how hard it would be to answer that question - probably it was good that we didn't. Those 1st baby steps have led us to day where we have landed in the most promising terrain to look for evidence with a rover capable of things the pioneers of Mars exploration could only dream of.

[@petermclennan6781]

"After all that effort, there is nothing there for us" Nothing could be farther from the truth. Adventure, Discovery and Inspiration have all been there for us. Each is an essential component of humanity.

[@davidmorf5869]

@@petermclennan6781 Well and timely said, Peter. Thank you! PS: as a high schooler thru 1965, lived in driving distance to the Western Test Range in Santa Barbara County and cut the grass of a neighbor who happened to be the Operations Manager at the Air Force Western Test Range (AFWTR). Was able to work for him during summers while in high school -- he sent me to Eniwetok Atol some 5000 miles west of California to work with the crew who retrieved items launched from the Air Force Western Test Range (AFWTR) one summer and we watched the incoming snap out of the sky into the lagoon within the target atoll. Feels like yesterday!

[@tankej]

What a professional job. The interviews, footage, and main narrative are captivating and compelling - bravo and thank you!

[@ramonortiz7462]

Just great! CGI ANIMATION!!

[@ryurazu]

love the old footage, very little seen in this day and age. Especially that first closeup colour map of mars.

[@SamtheIrishexan]

Its really cool to see the perspectives that people had before I was born. I love it keep posting them!

[@jimgraham6722]

The Viking labelled gas release experiment of course, by any measure, found life on Mars. Subsequent experiments focused on geology, not biology. Why the label gas experiments weren't properly followed up is a mystery

[@angelitofuentes5661]

Wow the Beautiful views in the planet

[@ismailnyeyusof3520]

Watching the documentaries from JPL is thoroughly enjoyable and illuminating. I am confident that scientists and engineers from different countries can work together, for the benefit of the planet, unlike the politicians from the same countries. Scientists and engineers are truly more human like than politicians!

[@s1nb4d59]

Thoroughly enjoying these documentaries posted by JPL,well done team.

[@sanaall2132]

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[@sanaall2132]

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[@davidmikolajczak]

@@sanaall2132 lol

[@DiTBlueAngel]

😀

[@flattenthecurve8623]

Are you munching crayons and licking your windows while you watch your computer generated images and hoaxed moon landings?

[@flannelshirtdad]

I am always impressed by the amazing achievements made by these talented teams using that early technology. We are only limited by our imagination and budget.

[@tonyduncan9852]

One's budget is controlled by one's imagination. So it's only our imagination. Could be _someone else's_ imagination. . .

[@ketchupcommander]

yeah, i had zero budget and found aliens on their own public servers. These clowns have billions and cant even do a google search..

[@tonyduncan9852]

@@ketchupcommander I found aliens too.

[@Spike0000]

@@tonyduncan9852 Exactly....

[@5Andysalive]

Always amazing how Mariner 2 made it to Venus with a Ranger platform, while Ranger still couldn't crash into the Moon. But Ranger was a great learning process for Nasa. Mostly for learning that you don't sacrifice redundancy for more science experiments and listen to your engineers even if the scientists shout at you.

[@cynthiawood4201]

I can't believe you believe this garbage.

[@grantbennett333]

The earth is flat and motionless

[@kiwibob223]

@@grantbennett333 🤡

[@JamesAlstonmemphis]

@@grantbennett333 The zombies will eventually figure it out. NASA's spell is still too great for them now.

[@grantbennett333]

@@kiwibob223 nukes are fake and covid is a great nwo psyop and the earth is flat and motionless...

[@pastorrich7436]

Brilliant production and inspiring storytelling. Well done Team JPL!

[@marcusnewble9366]

🌅🌅🌅🌅🌅

[@marcusnewble9366]

🙏🙏🎇🙏🎇🎇🎇🎇🙏🙏🎇🎇🙏

[@andyfim]

Absolutely loved it! Amazing documentary and such a nice inside view of the missions! Thanks!!

[@a9302c]

Love these documentaries about JPL's journey. Excellent depth, with great details. Hope to see more in future! Great job!

[@mateuszbugaj799]

You can rest assured about more great videos from JPL. You can also watch them all now ahead of official release at www.jpl.nasa.gov/who-we-are/documentary-series-jpl-and-the-space-age

[@5Andysalive]

Especially that they are proper documentaries. Not like the usual dumbed down and drama'd up TV documentaries you get mostly in the last few decades. Just dropping the miles and inch business would be cool.

[@a9302c]

@@5Andysalive You make a great point. I love the proper deeper knowledge that they provide.

[@gregedmand9939]

As captivating as Apollo was to a high school kid, it was the Mars photo broadcasts which really captured my imagination. After years of feasting on Heinlein I was expecting some crazy stuff, but the reality was so captivating I quickly lost my disappointment not seeing cities. The huge leap in the visual and computer technologies during my lifetime have exceeded even the rocket science that provided the ride. I ponder the Samsung tablet I watched this video on... It blows my mind to consider it contains more computer and graphics capabilities than all the combined Mariner capacity by an unbelievable factor!

[@melissaflood505]

Fake space for you 💰

[@MrFalconp1]

Fantastic documentary. Thank you for the upload.

[@KoolBell4AU]

Proof, if it is ever needed, that when we as a species work together, we can achieve the once thought unachievable.

[@ponyote]

Thank you all for such a lovely documentary. Seeing the people behind these achievements is truly awe inspiring.

[@alancraddock5020]

These Documentaries are Fantastic .WELL DONE .

[@marcinpowichrowski4960]

Amazing documentaries JPL, more please :)

[@SubvertTheState]

Sandia Laboritories really made my Thanksgiving last year when I discovered 8 hours of engineering nuclear weapons history. This is just as riveting, I loved the analog photodata processors (the engineers) competing to compile an image.

[@GregMeadMaker]

Excellent documentary! I'll enjoy watching this again and again! - - Audrey in Chicago

[@larrybliss8330]

This is the third doc in this series I've seen. The productions are excellent, the writing is clear and concise. I hope there are many more. I remember seeing the cratery surface from the Mariner 4 flight and being so disappointed there were no canals. These early shots only hinted at the splendor of the Martian landscape that later missions displayed.

[@ramonortiz7462]

You mean great CGI ANIMATION!!

[@TheStockwell]

@@ramonortiz7462 Give it a rest, goofy. 🙄

[@ramonortiz7462]

@@TheStockwell YOUR REALITY IS ENTIRELY ARTIST RENDERINGS, CONCEPTIONS, IMPRESSIONS, COMPOSITES, CGI, ANIMATION AND AUGMENTED VIRTUAL REALITY!! THOUSANDS OF SATELLITES IN ORBIT OF THE EARTH?? TRY DOING DOCUMENTARY WITH SOMETHING REAL EH?? DIDINT THINK SO!! YOU DO NOT LIVE ON THE OUTSIDE SURFACE OF A GIANT SPINNING SPHERICAL WATER WORLD SPACE BALL SPINNING FASTER THAN A BULLET AT THE EQUATOR SPEEDING THROUGH AN INFINITE AND EXPANDING VACUUM UNIVERSE BILLIONS OF LIGHTYEARS ACROSS!!! NASA LIES!!

[@marcgottlieb9579]

My comment above if you please :)

[@SuperBunnys]

Yaaaaaaaaaaa lawyer lol

[@rauladdams5709]

This documentary is an absolute homerun. ❤

[@you238]

This is awesome. So much footage from the moments everything happened. The human reactions from our first glimpse of Mars from up close, then even closer.

[@unleasheth]

Wake up

[@Luan-RT]

@@unleasheth Get an education.

[@unleasheth]

@@Luan-RT U want me to get an indoctrination, like u? To add to my biz degree and certs? Why? All this space bs where u guys have your heads in the clouds all isnt making the majority of people living right now any money at all, u know this right? In fact its costing us ALL, lots and lots of money. To the tune of 50+ million a day thx to ur fellas at never a straight answer. Surely u know these things though, of course u do.....Go get some more indoctrination, then come at me.....bro

[@Luan-RT]

@@unleasheth Indoctrinated??? Have you ever heard of logic/science? If yes then you should know that nobody is “indoctrinated” into anything - we test, confirm & discard theories all the time. Unlike you conspiracy nuts who think everyone is wrong. I hope you change your mind and stop being such an ignorant person, that's not normal at all.

[@mikeclarke952]

Wow what an awesome documentary. Thank you.

[@davidboyle1902]

What a great video. I lived through Apollo and Viking, and I was one of those very disappointed individuals who watched in horror as we gave up on planetary exploration. I’m glad those days are behind us.

[@guygrip9634]

THEY MADE OFF THEY GAVE UP. THERE TOLD NOT TO INTERFEAR IF HUMAN PLANS TO LAND THERE. ITS OWNED BY NON SOLID REPTILIAN. AND MORE THEY FOUND QUIETER THEY GOT. MARS WAS NUKE 5 MILLION YEARS AGO. AND IT ONLY DESTROYED ROBUTIC LIFE BY TELICIEAS. BY MIND OF TWO RACES. CAUSE REAL LIFE CAN NOT LIVE THERE ITS COLD. MARS BEEN HUSHED UP EVER SINCE.

[@astroshawn8357]

Absolutely loved this!

[@hcarrillo3261981]

Outstanding!!! Thank you for uploading!

[@stevewalston7089]

This was absolutely spectacular!

[@gagarinone]

A curious information is that JPL, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was founded in 1936 in Pasadena, California by, among others, Qian Xuesen, who in the 1950s was forced by McCarthyism to move back to China, where he built up China's space and missile program. And became China's answer to the United States' Wernher von Braun, and the Soviet Union's Sergei Korolev. Qian Xuesen inspired young people in the country to invest in space, which today has placed China at the forefront, among the world's foremost space nations. China may even surprise by becoming the nation that places the first man on Mars. We humans would surely have had outposts, colonies on other celestial bodies today, if Qian Xuesen, Wernher von Braun and Sergei Korolev had had the opportunity to cooperate.

[@williamipurdyjr6563]

I still have my VIP tickets to the May 23 2017 Beckman Auditorium debut of this documentary. Blaine Baggett and his crew - including Eric Conway - has done an extraordinary job of developing these documentaries of the missions involving JPL.

[@stussymishka]

These scientists and engineers of the 60s were gods. astounding what they were able to accomplish with limited tech.

[@ExploringTheAmericanFrontier]

Awesome video keep up the good work !

[@artyzinn7725]

One of the better of a great series. I found these thru the JPL site after being referred there from the Saturn cassini mission documentary. Not sure why these are not made find able via youtube.

[@dr4d1s]

There are more of these out there?! Thank you for that. I love these JPL documentaries!

[@saltrigona1872]

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[@Landoparada360]

We never went to the Moon and rockets can't get high enough to show homosapiens the whole mythical blue marble 😆

[@franklinkuzmenko8011]

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[@lakecountynaturalist7617]

My inner geek is dancing with joy! Please post more videos like these. One of the best documentaries I've seen in a long, long time.

[@padawanmage71]

Loved this documentary. I hope you continue with the lead up to Pathfinder/Sojourner.

[@TheUndert0ker]

This is an awesome documentary! I really love the footage and moments captured of the engineers and scientists in these tense moments. Very cool to see the people behind these incredible projects. And their hairstyles and clothes.

[@marsdenbalaska3]

Garbage and misinformation

[@goldie862]

Literally incredible, meaning not credible.

[@noahschwartz2270]

Incredible means hard to believe. Not 'not credible'. Sheesh.

[@myriaddsystems]

I can't help but feel a bit weepy considering all the hopes and aspirations that went into these launches

[@vilod]

I remember watching this story on tv. I was just a kid. It had a great impact on me.

[@Puuch44]

Thank you! Wonderful work!

[@ralf-richardhartmann3718]

Very,very amazing and astonishing-Pioneers☻🎇

[@DONALDSON51]

Great quality. Keep them coming. Would love an in depth documentary on the Apollo applications 'what might have beens' such as proposed Venus flybys and the more advanced Lunar options

[@marybeth1078]

+

[@randy25rhoads]

More of these documentaries please!

[@J.Tronix]

I want more videos like this!

[@mimidhof2179]

Nice, well done.

[@82spiders]

I was a proto-geek at 8 years old and listened to every Mercury, Gemini and Apollo mission that was broadcast. And Viking. My uncle was a nuclear physicist and mostly couldn't say anything about where he was in '44 and '45. He was disturbed they killed the nuclear engine which he worked on. He took me on a brief tour of Lawrence Livermore labs. In 1963 he predicted break even fusion reactor by 2,000. Scientist can reliable predict anything (arguable) within 1 order of magnitude so between 20 and 200 years from 1963. What you are not seeing in these videos is what killed this zeal for scientific and technological prowess. It was the stupidest idea the US has ever tried and failed to execute. All the money for space exploration was eaten by DOD and the Vietnam war. Defense contractors fund the campaigns of congresspersons and Senators who give them money. This is the Military Industrial Complex that Eisenhower warns us of in his last speech as president. Reverse Citizen's United!!!

[@Dino_Hunter_420]

Your legit right As 90’s kid I missed all that hyped era and hoped for even more hyped one with better and more frequent exploration. Perhaps world changing discoveries… What I got is not what I hoped for 🫠 politicians and government total rats rip Kennedy and his dream

[@keelyevans4695]

Hugs; exactly, get these people's thinking of everything correctly again so all kids are born to peace and security for all :-) forgetting isn't always the best policy it would appear from all angles. Unlike guys go read the last 2500 pages of them setting me up for that and me already doing everything you asked instead of trying to convince me of the perpetrators messages for the rest of time. Parting the Red Sea everyday gets tiring.

[@craigmackay4909]

We could of had sample returns years ago .

[@jonfarrah]

Oh wow!...this is a pure & priceless rockumentary....one big red rock...one giant leap for humankind spread over decades of ingenious anxiety, exhilaration & endeavour . Absolutely fascinating, thank you :)

[@trevormcvety7315]

These are the type of discoveries they feel hands on,that they are intersolar explorers

[@greg9404]

Excellent documentary. Not sure why there's only ~900 views after being up for a year.

[@jarkkoj2301]

Yeah. They really should un-hide these..

[@MadEra33]

because workout videos or BS from influencers is more entertaining to the the simple minden

[@Markle2k]

This premiered less than two days ago and has nearly 100,000 views.

[@greg9404]

Awesome!

[@davidcadman4468]

@@Markle2k Over 250,000 now. So it is doing well. Accelerating and will make escape velocity by Christmas. Probably reach the outer solar system in 3 years. :D

[@ldvan100]

You look at the equipment of the 60's and compare it to today, 2022, and you wonder how they made it... Now try to imagine what it will be in another 60yrs???

[@davidcadman4468]

Next 15-20 years it will be like science fiction come real. the next 15-20 years it will be like the movie Tomorrowland. From then to the end of the century, it will be Fantasy Land or Through the Looking Glass where up is down and small is large, where the Cheshire cat can fade into a smile. The dreams of Elon Musk will seem so ordinary. In 2045 the Printing Press that created books and our educated society, will celebrate it's 600th birthday. Imagine someone from the medieval world before printing, where books were hand written, arriving in our world, where we throw out paper as trash and treat books as disposable. Then leap forward 600 years. NOW imagine the changes along the way.

[@ldvan100]

@@davidcadman4468 Beyond what we can imagine my friend.....

[@loue6563]

It just is amazing what they accomplished with so little technology compared to what we have now. Just brilliant

[@tobyihli9470]

Apparently one of Martin’s attributes was the ability to spot talent, regardless of the, “package,” as in the case with Lee, with his goofy smile, long hair, and pink shirt with white pants covered in strawberries. He remarked about those, but he still noticed that Lee was one of the smartest men he had ever met. Talk about not judging a book by its cover! Martin didn’t hesitate to give Lee the nod, and the team was more effective for it.

[@larrye.goinesjr.1535]

"If Only We Had Taller Been" By Ray Bradbury The Fence We Walked Between The Years Did Balance Us Serene; It Was A Place Half In The Sky Where In The Green Of Leaf And Promising Of Peach We’d Reach Our Hands To Touch And Almost Touch The Sky, If We Could Reach And Touch, We Said, ‘Twould Teach Us, Not To, Never To Be Dead. We Ached, And Almost Touched That Stuff; Our Reach Was Never Quite Enough. If Only We Had Taller Been, And Touched God’s Cuff, His Hem, We Would Not Have To Go With Them Who’ve Gone Before, Who, Short As We, Stood Tall As They Could Stand And Hoped By Stretching Tall To Keep Their Land, Their Home, Their Hearth, Their Flesh And Soul. But They, Like Us, Were Standing In A Hole. O, Thomas, Will A Race One Day Stand Really Tall Across The Void, Across The Universe And All? And, Measured Out With Rocket Fire, At Last Put Adam’s Finger Forth As On The Sistine Ceiling, And God’s Hand Come Down The Other Way To Measure Man And Find Him Good, And Gift Him With Forever’s Day? I Work For That. Short Man, Large Dream. I Send My Rockets Forth Between My Ears, Hoping An Inch Of Good Is Worth A Pound Of Years. Aching To Hear A Voice Cry Back Along The Universal Mall: We’ve Reached Alpha Centauri! We’re Tall, O God, We’re Tall!

[@FredPlanatia]

a great poem, but the beauty of it is if we reach Alpha Centauri, we've only just made a first step. Are we tall? The universe, even just the galaxy is measured in tens of thousands of lightyears.

[@creativesun8175]

Wow so they transmitted pictures by uhf radio signal 39.9 million miles away and the signals went through the van Allen belts without dispersing, totally amazing!

[@notgreg123]

I don't think that's how radiation works

[@caturdaynite7217]

I remember the Viking lander. I delivered the Chicago Tribune that day in July 1976. I made sure everyone got their copy. All 150 stops. This was news to important to miss. Great doc and I look forward to watching them all.

[@Maxvellua]

Thank you very much for so interesting and amazing documentary film!

[@jdmo21]

JPL - John Parson -The Occult - Scientology - Blown up

[@mrcolbyii181]

The old genetic falsely. Good one.

[@TheStockwell]

There is now absolute proof of an intelligent and technologically advanced presence on Mars. It's us. 😺

[@davidcadman4468]

Nope!! it's the robots :)

[@TheStockwell]

@@davidcadman4468 True, but they were born on Earth. We're their proud and watchful parents. 😸

[@renscience]

Those engineers rocked. And the engineers of today creating these missions are just as amazing people. Go JPL

[@RichardCowdrey]

Outstanding!

[@iamrizsai]

_M.A.R.S_ These people where far ahead of the time I literally thought spirit / opportunity where the first Mars rovers to capture it's surface images

[@recordocoombs7564]

With all these complications, I really wonder if there was ever a man who truly left our atmosphere to be in the environment of another dimension…due to the difficulties involved it could always be suicidal so which man would really be that brave, well yes we are as a species but somehow I don’t believe these men ever did.

[@patrickphillips6324]

Police are allowed to lie to us so what makes you think these government agencies are any different lol

[@richh650]

Bravo on an excellent explanation program!

[@jsmith2132]

Awesome ... just awesome!

[@chentepacololo4570]

How did u get through the Firmament? How come after all the missions to Mars Never been a REAL AUTHENTIC PICTURE OF EARTH NOT CUMPUTOR COMPOSITES. WHY ALL THE CGI

[@Abbadoss]

NASA = NEVER A STRIGHT ANSWER :)

[@roberttso1079]

Great documentary!

[@wsrichardson5796]

One of the best documentaries on this subject I have ever seen! Thank you. The negative comments from the Flat Earth believers here make for a humorous contrast. "Mars is a light"? Lol.

[@bigyote]

Outstanding. We need to thoroughly explore Mars via robotics and AI much, much more before wasting big $$$ on manned (suicide) trips.

[@ernestobadillo1725]

From these incredible bright minds, science has traveled to give images to our collective dreams and imagination. We have to physically go, and be there. Thanks JPL

[@johnmanderson2060]

Perfect documentary 👍🏻

[@raven_777]

Thoroughly enjoying your Disney graphics. Hey, DreamWorks are still better.

[@alpha.7637]

It has to be.

[@jethroneilcutamora9183]

Nothing new. All CGI / photoshopped images. It's already 2022 and we can't even "go back" to the moon (assuming we did in the first place), and people still imagine going to Mars as if it's something that we can land on (probably somewhere in Egypt or some desert? lol). Keep on dreaming NASA fanbois :)

[@automaticreply]

"After School" needs to do a video on that poem!!

[@lendmeu]

Excellent material and presentation! Thanks

[@randont]

#hoax #moneygrab

[@SirFlat]

The biggest lie ever

[@noobisprop]

This is a great video and should be seen by all.

[@Disappointedwithhumanity]

Fantastic video. Not often I will stay engrossed in a 1 1/2 youtube video

[@paulheart320]

Lies.