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Throughout our enduring search for knowledge about ourselves and our world, we haven't found answers to 1 in our most important questions: Does indeed life exist somewhere else in the world? A decade and vast amounts of us dollars in the making, the Mars rover Attention is poised to answer this all-important question. Here, Rob Manning, the project's chief engineer, tells of having the groundbreaking spacecraft alive. Manning and his team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, tasked with building a lander often larger and more technical than any before, faced technical setbacks, fights over inadequate resources, and the issues of leading an army of brilliant, ardent, and often frustrated experts. Manning's attractive personal bill - which include information from his exclusive interviews with leading Attention experts - is filled with tales of ground-breaking feats of research, technology, and engineering. Listeners experience firsthand the disappointment at encountering prolonged technical problems, the agony of close to defeat, the sense of victory at finding innovative answers to these problems, the sheer terror of staking occupations and reputations on a lander that couldn't be examined on the planet, and the rush of triumph at its successful touchdown on Mars on August 5, 2012. This is the report of persistence, determination, and unrelenting interest.
