My feelings exactly. My father was Project Manager for the MPL mission. He poured heart and soul into it, commuted from LA to Denver to keep the engineering on track, and then from LA to Florida to keep the launch on track. He did an incredible job with the money and mass that was allocated, and was never content to slack off and let things take care of themselves.
From what I saw of his colleagues at the launch, the entire project operated this way. This was an incredible group of engineers and scientists who would never fiddle with the test conditions to make things "pass their tests."
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It's great to see so much support for the project team from both inside and outside NASA/JPL. Thanks.
My feelings exactly. My father was Project Manager for the MPL mission. He poured heart and soul into it, commuted from LA to Denver to keep the engineering on track, and then from LA to Florida to keep the launch on track. He did an incredible job with the money and mass that was allocated, and was never content to slack off and let things take care of themselves.
From what I saw of his colleagues at the launch, the entire project operated this way. This was an incredible group of engineers and scientists who would never fiddle with the test conditions to make things "pass their tests."