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The true tale of how an improbable leader helped inspire a team of rocket researchers to attain the near impossible: getting a 2000-pound rover on Mars. Few organizations solve as many impossible problems as NASA's Plane Propulsion Lab, and nobody has learned more about leading rocket researchers to improbable breakthroughs than Adam Steltzner. As the stage lead and development supervisor for EDL (entrance, descent, and getting) of the Interest rover to Mars, Steltzner spearheaded the creation of one of engineering's wackiest kluges - the sky crane, which allowed the heaviest rover in the history of space exploration to land on Mars unscathed. Steltzner is not a standard engineer. His path to control was about as improbable as they come. A child of beatnik parents, he was a daredevil and avid hill biker, breaking 32 bones before squeaking through senior high school. He blew off university and only just work at a health food store and participating in bass in a group. After an interest in the movement of the stars led him to enroll in your free time at community university, Steltzner found out an astonishing present for math and physics. Within years he received his PhD and ensconced himself within the offbeat Plane Propulsion Lab, NASA's decidedly unbureaucratic cousin, where success in a mission is the sole metric that matters. The Right Kind of Crazy is the storyplot of the teamwork, crisis, and extraordinary feats of innovation at the Plane Propulsion Laboratory that culminated in getting the rover Interest on Mars in 2012. It also weaves Steltzner's professional life - centering on the a decade he and his team spent planning and then executing the getting of the rover - along with his unlikely trip from educational underachiever to rocket scientist. Along the way listeners will find out about why is effective teams, how to stay on job for the long term, and strategies for solving incredibly intricate problems. The Right Kind of Crazy is a booklet for anyone striving for excellence.
