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   ** On Sunday 21.02.21 - 11:06, Wilfred wrote to August:   
      
    AA>> I watched a recorded copy of one with a young well-spoken lady   
    AA>> introducing different engineers and asking good questions.   
      
    WvV> That probably was before the landing fase?   
      
   She covered the whole thing.  During the most of the "7 minutes"     
   part, one of the NASA engineers (the one with a dot on her     
   forehead) provided the real-time commentary, but she was always     
   behind on the numbers we saw on the screen.   
      
    AA>> Sometimes they showed something that looked like a panel   
    AA>> of different analog/digital meters.  i wish they had kept   
    AA>> those on the screen ALL the time in the lower third or   
    AA>> something.   
      
    WvV> I was annoyed by that too. Because that was the only way   
    WvV> to track the progress of the landing. But they switched   
    WvV> around to views of the people, which was totally boring...   
      
   I would have thought that they would have had a producer that     
   understood those things and would maintain the gauges on the     
   screen all the time.  It could have been not unlike what they do     
   on sports shows and elections with the numbers updating on the     
   screen all the time.   
      
    AA>> The 7 minutes of terror didn't seem so terrifying without that.   
      
    WvV> Indeed.   
      
   Too bad they designed the jetpack to be discarded. Why couldn't     
   it be designed to land safely (farther away from the rover,     
   ofcourse) and then have wheels that could unfold. Then it could     
   be another device that could have cameras on it.   
      
   Their common practice to discard spent equipment like that on     
   foreign soil makes me feel not so bad having my fields littered     
   with old cars and tires.  :D   
      
      
      
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