1 00:00:01,880 --> 00:00:10,000 Speaker 1: Eight seven six five for engine ignission two one zero. 2 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 2: Relate and lift off. 3 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:18,280 Speaker 1: As the countdowns Mars continues the perseverance of humanity launching 4 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:21,279 Speaker 1: the next generation of robotic explorers to the Red Planet. 5 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 3: From Utro Media, It's Latino USA. I'm Maria Jojosa. Today 6 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:33,240 Speaker 3: we meet some of the Latinos working on the most 7 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:45,240 Speaker 3: recent and historic mission to Mars. It's been about forty 8 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:50,159 Speaker 3: five years since the first US spacecraft landed safely on Mars. 9 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:53,519 Speaker 3: Since then, there have been several other missions to the 10 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 3: Red planet, each one building off of the other and 11 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 3: getting us to where we are today. 12 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:04,479 Speaker 4: After the Rover Curiosity landed on Mars eight years ago, 13 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:08,640 Speaker 4: it confirmed the Red planet once could have supported life. 14 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 4: Perseverance will try to find definitive proof. 15 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:14,040 Speaker 5: That's how confirmed. 16 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:17,959 Speaker 6: Perseverance take away on the Sea of Mars. 17 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:22,640 Speaker 3: The Rover left Earth last July and traveled almost three 18 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:27,200 Speaker 3: hundred million miles across space to its destination, the Red Planet. 19 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 3: And on today's episode, you're going to hear from some 20 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 3: of the Latinos and Latinas whose own perseverance made this 21 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:36,399 Speaker 3: mission possible. 22 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 5: People like the Ana Trujiro the. 23 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 7: Night before always were empty and I am setting up 24 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:48,520 Speaker 7: thinking about, you know, having the biggest night of my career. 25 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 7: On the next morning, on getting ready. 26 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 3: For it, Gristina Ernandez, I woke up. 27 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:58,560 Speaker 8: Super early because I could not sleep at all in 28 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 8: the anticipation of landing on Mars. I was one of 29 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 8: the people who was actually supporting remotely from home. So 30 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 8: because of the pandemic, a large majority of our team 31 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:12,200 Speaker 8: is actually working remotely. 32 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 3: Elio Morigo. 33 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 9: The moment we landed, we were just you know, throwing 34 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:21,840 Speaker 9: our arms up. It was super emotional because after so 35 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 9: many years, our baby was finally on the surface of Mars, 36 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:27,360 Speaker 9: ready to get on with the science mission. 37 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 3: And Alejandro Miguel San Martin, who went viral after his 38 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 3: daughter shared with the world Alejandro's reaction to the moment 39 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 3: when Perseverance landed on Mars. 40 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:52,360 Speaker 2: Pretty table. Being at home, my wife next to me, 41 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:55,240 Speaker 2: I was more free to actually be part of the 42 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:59,280 Speaker 2: experience than in the previous for landings that I was 43 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 2: in the control room in a more ridges settings, because 44 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 2: you're doing a job, and so I think that's also 45 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:09,960 Speaker 2: play a role in my being able to celebrate the 46 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 2: great success of Perseverance landing. 47 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:22,080 Speaker 3: Year's producer Reinaldo Leo Junior, bringing us their stories. 48 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 5: Deanna tru Hill was working late at NASA's JPL Jet 49 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 5: Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the night before the Perseverance 50 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:37,880 Speaker 5: rover would finally touch down on the surface of Mars. 51 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 7: That night, I think I was not only reflecting on that, 52 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 7: reflecting Alsoman family and understanding how far we have gotten 53 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 7: us humanity, and recognizing that everybody is going to get 54 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:54,000 Speaker 7: to see what we're about to do on Mars. 55 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 5: As flight director for the rover, Deanna knew that in 56 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 5: just a couple of hours should be a partart of history. 57 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 7: I was setting up and getting ready for the first 58 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:09,880 Speaker 7: Spanish language landing broadcast and NASA has done for a 59 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 7: planetary mission Perseverance. 60 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 5: Deanna would lead this broadcast and give a play by 61 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:30,600 Speaker 5: play as the rover inch closer and closer to landing. 62 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 5: The idea for a Spanish language broadcast came to her 63 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,479 Speaker 5: when she was working on another Mars mission about a 64 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 5: decade ago, Curiosity. 65 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 7: It came to my mind, maybe like a week or 66 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:46,279 Speaker 7: a few days before Curiosity landed in twenty twelve. But 67 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:48,800 Speaker 7: since then I've been, you know, going to the media 68 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:52,800 Speaker 7: office periodically every time there's a major mission happening, like 69 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 7: hey we should do this in Spanish, Hey we should 70 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:58,040 Speaker 7: do this in Spanish and yeah, So right before Perseverance started, 71 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:01,160 Speaker 7: I mentioned it again and consistantly, I feel like for 72 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:03,479 Speaker 7: seven years, and then they said yes. 73 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 10: So Indiana Trojijoa, Stadiajano, director Deuelo, the Superficio, the Perseverance, 74 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 10: but thank god el primer program my Nesanol de la Nasa, 75 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:20,360 Speaker 10: Planetario Venios. 76 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:24,919 Speaker 5: Throughout nearly two hours of broadcast, Diana had several guests 77 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:28,839 Speaker 5: start by virtually, like Lola and Abby from Sestime Street. 78 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:38,280 Speaker 11: Oha Ana is the Lista ci Mascalistas see lore Sta 79 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:43,240 Speaker 11: Dusperanduste Momento. 80 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 5: And Colombian artist JUANEZZOLISASA journalists j Ramos and Maria Elena 81 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:56,920 Speaker 5: Salinas and others also made an appearance. Just before one 82 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 5: pm Pacific time on February eighteen, Perseverance landed on Mars 83 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:14,640 Speaker 5: and on mar the video of the Spanish broadcast, which 84 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:18,719 Speaker 5: they called junto Amos, has more than two point six 85 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:20,440 Speaker 5: million views on YouTube. 86 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:23,600 Speaker 7: Our culture showed up to it, right. It wasn't like 87 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:26,800 Speaker 7: please come, it was the other way, which it was. 88 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:29,280 Speaker 7: Thank you for having it in Spanish. We wanted to 89 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:32,480 Speaker 7: hear it. We have always been here, but you know, 90 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 7: nobody was talking to us. So now somebody's talking to us, 91 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 7: and that's great. 92 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:39,720 Speaker 5: Her family in the US and abroad also tuned in. 93 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:44,920 Speaker 7: I'm from Colombia in my country on the public channel, 94 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 7: they broadcasted it, so my grandma saw it and she 95 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:51,280 Speaker 7: was super excited. She was actually on the phone with 96 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:55,400 Speaker 7: my mom, my kids, my husband, my mom. They're all 97 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:58,440 Speaker 7: watching it on TV at home while I'm at the office. 98 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 5: Dan, I know it was glad her family watched, but 99 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:05,040 Speaker 5: even more excited that they were part of this collective experience. 100 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:08,040 Speaker 7: I'm sure that if he hadn't been the pandemic, and 101 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 7: you know, I love my culture and everything, I feel 102 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 7: like we would have pull up the TV outside. Everybody 103 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:16,160 Speaker 7: will have been on the street. People will be like, 104 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:18,840 Speaker 7: watch this, and like all the neighbors would have opened 105 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 7: the doors, like I could see that happening on my 106 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:24,720 Speaker 7: country and even on my own street, right where everybody 107 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 7: just unites for a single thing that is happening, with 108 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 7: a lot of pride because we're part of it. 109 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:36,000 Speaker 5: The road to NASA has been a long one for Vienna, 110 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 5: but she remembers different times throughout her life that space 111 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 5: found its way to her. The first time was when 112 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 5: she was a little girl and her parents were getting 113 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:49,760 Speaker 5: a divorce. As she felt that everything around her was 114 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 5: falling off, the stars in the night sky held her up. 115 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 7: That's when space came in for me, because I think 116 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:01,200 Speaker 7: that it was just more of like an escape kind 117 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 7: of like now as an adult, you know, you have 118 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 7: a bad day and you go out for a walk 119 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 7: and you look at the stars and you're like, Okay, 120 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:08,640 Speaker 7: I got my moment of I'm calm. 121 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:08,880 Speaker 2: Now. 122 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 7: That's the same it was for me when I was 123 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 7: a little girl, So thinking about the stars, looking at 124 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 7: how awesome that is, and then as you're in that 125 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 7: zone of peace, recognizing that, my god, somebody actually walked 126 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:23,960 Speaker 7: on the moon, which is insane and I am so 127 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 7: far from that and there's no way I will ever 128 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 7: do that and it's not going to happen. But how 129 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 7: cool would it be to understand how that works? Because 130 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:36,960 Speaker 7: somehow the sky figure out how to make it all work, 131 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:39,680 Speaker 7: and we haven't on Earth. 132 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 5: It was the women Indiana's life who would make her 133 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 5: aware of her true potential on frequent visits to her 134 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:49,280 Speaker 5: grandmother's house, who lived just a block away from her. 135 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 5: She would sit on the floor and listen to her 136 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 5: Abuela Diaz and cousins talk about everything. 137 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:57,839 Speaker 8: Oh, my husband did this, You're not going to belave that. 138 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 7: It was kind of like they were coming together to 139 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:05,199 Speaker 7: share with each other the stories of what had occurred 140 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 7: to them on that week. There was this beautiful thing 141 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:13,319 Speaker 7: where there was a community of women. They were just 142 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:15,920 Speaker 7: helping each other, and it was almost like, this is 143 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:19,560 Speaker 7: happening to me, Is this happening to you? Or how 144 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:20,679 Speaker 7: did you handle this? 145 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:25,040 Speaker 5: The anecess is coming together of women was essential for 146 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:28,559 Speaker 5: her to recognize that everyone has problems, but there is 147 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 5: always a way out. 148 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:34,040 Speaker 7: Those problems in many cases, were very similar to each other. 149 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:36,439 Speaker 7: I can do this, I can do that, or I 150 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:38,719 Speaker 7: don't have this, or I don't have that, and a 151 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:40,439 Speaker 7: lot of the I can do this, I can do 152 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:46,520 Speaker 7: that were related to the relationship where your significant other 153 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:50,559 Speaker 7: and the backing down from what you wanted out of 154 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 7: in some level fear fear of it's all to my partner. 155 00:09:56,400 --> 00:10:00,160 Speaker 7: I give everything to my partner, but what about you, Like, 156 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 7: when are you gonna think about, for one moment, this 157 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:05,679 Speaker 7: is what I want to do, this is how I 158 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:06,240 Speaker 7: want to do it. 159 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 5: She started to wonder what about her, what were her goals? 160 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:15,360 Speaker 7: And really what that to me translated after a while 161 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:19,520 Speaker 7: through the years was mainly that my grandma didn't finish 162 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:24,520 Speaker 7: middle school because of concerns from her significant other completing education. 163 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:28,440 Speaker 7: My mom also took a long time to even complete 164 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 7: her degree because she was supporting my dad. 165 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:36,559 Speaker 5: But her mom and grandma wanted Diana's life to be different, 166 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:40,920 Speaker 5: with high hopes and expectations for her. They had officially 167 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:42,800 Speaker 5: named her Lady Diana. 168 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 7: Part of my understanding from my grandma and choosing the 169 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:50,559 Speaker 7: name is you don't come second, you come first because 170 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 7: you're our princess of the house and we want you 171 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:56,120 Speaker 7: to do so great. And so they tried everything from 172 00:10:56,200 --> 00:11:00,720 Speaker 7: the name to the environment to pret me and build 173 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:02,760 Speaker 7: me in a way that I could see that I 174 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:04,160 Speaker 7: could do anything I wanted. 175 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 5: Danna eventually moved to the US when she was seventeen 176 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:12,079 Speaker 5: years old. She knew she wanted to pursue something challenging. 177 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:15,079 Speaker 7: I have to do something hard, I have to do 178 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:18,960 Speaker 7: something that sends the message internally to my family really 179 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:24,000 Speaker 7: that women do add value, that women have value, that 180 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:29,880 Speaker 7: we can contribute as much as another person or more so. 181 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 7: When I got here at that, how do I help 182 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:35,040 Speaker 7: the men and my family recognize that. 183 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 5: She knew being an astronaut was one of the hardest 184 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:42,199 Speaker 5: things someone could do, so she started to explore the 185 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:45,959 Speaker 5: career paths of other astronauts and discovered several of them 186 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:51,760 Speaker 5: were aerospace engineers. That eventually led her to NASA JPL, 187 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:55,439 Speaker 5: where she's had many hats As the Mars mission has evolved. 188 00:11:56,280 --> 00:11:59,440 Speaker 5: These days, Danna and her colleagues work around the clock 189 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 5: to make sure everything's okay on Mars. 190 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 7: A way of actually picturing this in my mind is 191 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:07,520 Speaker 7: like you're walking through a house and you're turning every 192 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:10,400 Speaker 7: single light, making sure that every light bulb barks, and 193 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:11,920 Speaker 7: then nothing has actually. 194 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:15,160 Speaker 5: Burned, she says. The rover has a schedule like you 195 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:17,480 Speaker 5: and I in our case, you. 196 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:19,480 Speaker 7: Know, you put your alarm, I don't know at six am. 197 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 7: The rover has an alarm at nine am, and so 198 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:27,880 Speaker 7: the rover wakes up at nine am to listen to 199 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 7: the commands of the day, which includes commanding everything from 200 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:38,120 Speaker 7: moving the arm, taking images, doing any type of instrument activity, driving. 201 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:42,280 Speaker 9: But the rover just like it's exactly like you and I. 202 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:44,480 Speaker 7: Right, at some point it's like I need to recharge 203 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:47,440 Speaker 7: my batteries, and so we put it to sleep. 204 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:52,680 Speaker 5: Danna says the days on Earth and Mars are different, 205 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:56,200 Speaker 5: so sometimes they'll start at midnight and maybe another day 206 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:59,920 Speaker 5: they'll start at three am or ten am. It just varies, 207 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 5: and while she plans to continue to be part of 208 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:05,960 Speaker 5: the Mars mission, Diana has not given up on her 209 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:08,320 Speaker 5: original goal to become an astronaut. 210 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:13,839 Speaker 7: If the opportunity way to come, I will certainly go. 211 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:16,160 Speaker 7: Right if you were to ask me right now, hey 212 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:18,439 Speaker 7: there's an open spot you want to go or not, 213 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:20,920 Speaker 7: I was like, yeah, let's do it, like there's no 214 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:25,520 Speaker 7: let me go think about it and let me go consult. Nope, 215 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 7: it's like, oh yeah, I already have my list of 216 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:29,040 Speaker 7: what I will pack done. 217 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 3: Coming up on Latino USA, we'll hear more from Latinos 218 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:46,600 Speaker 3: and Latinas who helped make this recent mission to Mars possible, 219 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 3: and they're going to share some inspirational words for any 220 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:52,560 Speaker 3: of you who are thinking about a career in NASA, 221 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:57,400 Speaker 3: The Moon, the Stars, stem Mars. Stay with us, don't 222 00:13:57,440 --> 00:14:58,520 Speaker 3: stay with us. Hey, we're back, and let's get back 223 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 3: to some of the Latinos and Latinas who recently helps 224 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 3: send a rover to Mars. Producer Renaldo Leans Junior once 225 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:08,640 Speaker 3: again picks up the story from here. 226 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:14,800 Speaker 5: In the lead up to the rover landing, part of 227 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:18,280 Speaker 5: the Mars team worked on the rover itself, and others 228 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:23,800 Speaker 5: worked hard on designing, building, and testing scientific instruments that 229 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:29,640 Speaker 5: are part of Perseverance. One of those instruments is named Sherlock, 230 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:30,880 Speaker 5: which is. 231 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:35,200 Speaker 8: An ultra violet spectrometer and it has a companion called Watson. 232 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:38,200 Speaker 8: We love our cute names. Watson is a camera that. 233 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:42,800 Speaker 5: Is Christina Hernandez, a payload system engineer. She worked on 234 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:47,520 Speaker 5: two scientific instruments, one that was developed in Spain called Meta. 235 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:51,000 Speaker 8: Which is a weather station that has sensors throughout the 236 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:54,680 Speaker 8: vehicle and is going to help us understand temperature, humidity, 237 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 8: and even the dust that we have at Mars. 238 00:15:57,440 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 5: And one made in Norway called. 239 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:04,000 Speaker 8: Which is a ground penetrating radar that as the rover 240 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:09,040 Speaker 8: is traversing and trekking along the Martian surface, rim Fax 241 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:12,000 Speaker 8: is going to be able to image what's underneath. 242 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:17,920 Speaker 5: Working with teams based outside the US forced Christina to 243 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 5: adapt to their clocks, and so. 244 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:22,200 Speaker 8: I would have to get up at like five am 245 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 8: for six am seven am design meetings with the team. 246 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:29,000 Speaker 8: Early on, it was lots of meetings, lots of design, 247 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 8: lots of like you know, big pitchure, thinking how are 248 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:34,720 Speaker 8: we going to do this? And about a year and 249 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:39,480 Speaker 8: a half from launch, it got to my favorite part, 250 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:44,040 Speaker 8: where you start testing and building hardware and seeing how 251 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:49,080 Speaker 8: it's working and fighting fires and troubleshooting. That's the fun stuff, 252 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:51,400 Speaker 8: right You're in the in the tests in the lab 253 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:55,440 Speaker 8: to like three in the morning figuring out these problems 254 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:57,840 Speaker 8: that have come up that you didn't prepare for. 255 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:04,280 Speaker 5: But Gristina wasn't always the type of person who liked 256 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 5: to break and take things apart. 257 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:09,200 Speaker 8: I didn't grow up being a tinker, you know. I 258 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:12,040 Speaker 8: wasn't taking apart, you know, remotes and things like that. 259 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:16,600 Speaker 8: I explored through turning a page in a book. I 260 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:20,439 Speaker 8: loved reading. I loved science fiction. And I remember seeing 261 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 8: you know, pictures from Saturn that Cassini actually took, and 262 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:28,119 Speaker 8: I asked myself, I was like, Wow, how do I 263 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:31,440 Speaker 8: take a picture of something that's so far away, so 264 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:34,240 Speaker 8: far out of my perspective and my reality. 265 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:38,160 Speaker 5: Gristina realized that she wanted to be someone who helps 266 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:42,600 Speaker 5: answer those questions that are fundamental to being human, like 267 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:45,920 Speaker 5: why are we here? And what else is out there? 268 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:50,960 Speaker 8: I wanted to be an engineer that helped enable science, 269 00:17:51,119 --> 00:17:53,200 Speaker 8: and I really feel that's what I get to do 270 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:57,639 Speaker 8: every single day as this payload systems engineer, which is 271 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:01,120 Speaker 8: really just, you know, a fancy title for somebody who 272 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:04,720 Speaker 8: helps develop the tools and the science instruments that we 273 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:08,480 Speaker 8: take to go explore and answer these fundamental questions. 274 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:15,680 Speaker 5: The first time Christina heard about NASA's JPL was through 275 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:19,520 Speaker 5: a show called Nova on PBS. She learned that it 276 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:22,960 Speaker 5: was at JPL where some of these engineers made missions 277 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:24,520 Speaker 5: in space a reality. 278 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:29,399 Speaker 8: My mom was such a supporter of taking me to 279 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:32,560 Speaker 8: the library, taking me to museums because we couldn't afford 280 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:37,160 Speaker 8: space camp, so my mother sought out opportunities that were 281 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 8: accessible to us, and one of those was JPL's open House. 282 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:47,160 Speaker 8: I just came away with the feeling of this place's 283 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:51,480 Speaker 8: Disneyland for nerds. You're walking around open house and these 284 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 8: engineers are driving small robots over kids. They're bringing out 285 00:18:56,800 --> 00:19:00,920 Speaker 8: our larger robots from the Mars Yard and showcasing. I 286 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:05,080 Speaker 8: just never realized that there was a place where science 287 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:06,440 Speaker 8: fiction meets reality. 288 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:13,119 Speaker 5: When Christina was in elementary school, her dad, an electrical technician, 289 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:16,000 Speaker 5: was studying to be an electrical engineer. 290 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:19,760 Speaker 8: My dad would always take me everywhere with him. He 291 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:23,280 Speaker 8: would take me to the facilities, and I just specifically 292 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:26,600 Speaker 8: remember cal State, LA. There was a couple of you know, 293 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:29,840 Speaker 8: electrical centers that he would go and check in and repair, 294 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:33,520 Speaker 8: and I would see his toolkit, all of his meters 295 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:36,520 Speaker 8: where he's you know, checking on the equipment. And I 296 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:41,800 Speaker 8: started to connect you know, math and science to dad. 297 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:44,680 Speaker 8: I really started to make the connection of oh, like, 298 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 8: my dad's going to be an engineer. He's going to 299 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:50,000 Speaker 8: help in this endeavor of what I see on TV. 300 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:53,159 Speaker 5: She started to realize that if she wanted to make 301 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:57,680 Speaker 5: science fiction happen, she needed to focus on engineering, which 302 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:01,920 Speaker 5: eventually led her to NASA's jp A few years ago. 303 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:06,119 Speaker 5: She took her parents and Abuilos, Mexican immigrants for a 304 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 5: visit to JPL. While terurin the laboratory, her grandmother told 305 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:13,679 Speaker 5: Christina a story she had never heard before. 306 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:19,400 Speaker 8: There was a moment when they got picked up by immigration, 307 00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:23,800 Speaker 8: and my grandmother tells me that when they were on 308 00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:27,280 Speaker 8: their way to the immigration center, on the radio, they 309 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 8: were celebrating something with the Apollo astronauts. This was like 310 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:33,240 Speaker 8: back in the seventies. 311 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:33,760 Speaker 12: You know. 312 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:36,880 Speaker 8: My grandmother just vividly remembers that moment, you know, when 313 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:41,399 Speaker 8: she was thinking about, oh, there's people who are exploring space. 314 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:46,080 Speaker 5: Suddenly Christina realized how far she'd made it. 315 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:49,800 Speaker 8: When I heard that story, I got very emotional because 316 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:53,920 Speaker 8: I it was that moment where you realize what a 317 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:57,080 Speaker 8: privilege it can be to be working for a nassa, 318 00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:00,760 Speaker 8: to be having your dream job. And it really started 319 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:05,840 Speaker 8: with my grandparents and my parents setting this foundation of 320 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:11,000 Speaker 8: coming to this country for greater opportunity and pushing forward 321 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:13,080 Speaker 8: no matter what the obstacles were. 322 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:19,879 Speaker 5: When Perseverance made it to Mars, Christina's grandmother took her 323 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:24,400 Speaker 5: granddaughter's contributions to the mission as also part of her own. 324 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:27,720 Speaker 8: In the moment of landing, you know, what she had 325 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:30,719 Speaker 8: said is that yo ya ye yeah Marte, because her 326 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 8: granddaughter had gotten there, and it was it was very 327 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:39,760 Speaker 8: special because we are here because of our families, because 328 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:44,240 Speaker 8: they supported us with whatever means they had. It's the 329 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:48,280 Speaker 8: foundation and the path that the explorers and my family 330 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:50,080 Speaker 8: paved for me to be here. 331 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:03,440 Speaker 5: For Ecuador born Eleo Morio, a systems test bet engineer 332 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:07,440 Speaker 5: at NASA JPL, it was his mom who was it foundation. 333 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 9: My mom the entire time, you know, she was an 334 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:16,280 Speaker 9: ecuador She had almost nearly a twenty plus year career 335 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:18,920 Speaker 9: as a teacher. You know, she reached the heights of 336 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:22,480 Speaker 9: her career. She was a principal. She was known across 337 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,920 Speaker 9: you know, the whole area for academics and the such. 338 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:30,080 Speaker 5: Then in the nineties, things started to change. 339 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:33,280 Speaker 9: The banking system kind of collapsed, and this is around 340 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:36,200 Speaker 9: the time where Ecuador gets dollarized. My mom knew that 341 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 9: the situation could potentially get dire, and we had some 342 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:42,480 Speaker 9: family at the time or over you know, several years, 343 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:45,480 Speaker 9: had already moved to New York City, which included my 344 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:49,760 Speaker 9: grandparents and some aunts and uncles. So we got fortunate 345 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:53,959 Speaker 9: in the in the sense that my grandpa requested us 346 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:57,960 Speaker 9: through the green card process and we got our green cards. 347 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:01,920 Speaker 5: So Eleo and his mom packed up and left for 348 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:09,240 Speaker 5: New York. Elliot's older brother, seventeen years his senior, moved 349 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:11,399 Speaker 5: to New York before Eliot was born. 350 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:15,159 Speaker 9: I can't imagine putting myself through that kind of position 351 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:18,480 Speaker 9: where after twenty plus years as a professional in my 352 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:21,000 Speaker 9: respective career, I end up going to another country where 353 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:24,560 Speaker 9: I don't necessarily know the language, and I have a 354 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:27,680 Speaker 9: son that I have to take care of and make 355 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:31,159 Speaker 9: ends meet so that he's fed, he's educated, and has 356 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:32,360 Speaker 9: opportunities set. 357 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:32,680 Speaker 2: Up for him. 358 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:37,359 Speaker 5: Elioth's mom would hold different jobs, from packing food at 359 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:41,920 Speaker 5: John F. Kennedy Airport to cleaning offices. Around this time, 360 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:45,200 Speaker 5: Elio's older brother ended up getting married to a Puerto 361 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:47,840 Speaker 5: Rican woman and they all moved to the island. 362 00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:53,679 Speaker 9: It's where I form my Spanish is Puerto Rican by 363 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:58,760 Speaker 9: all definition, I identify more Puerto Rican than Ecuadorian. 364 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:02,400 Speaker 5: For that case, Levin again in a place where Spanish 365 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:06,680 Speaker 5: was also spoken. Elio's mom resumed her teaching career. She 366 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:09,400 Speaker 5: did tutoring to bring in some extra money and went 367 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:10,240 Speaker 5: back to college. 368 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:12,639 Speaker 9: It was always very clear for me through her that 369 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:16,480 Speaker 9: education was the way out of our, you know, situation. 370 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:19,920 Speaker 9: It wasn't full blown poverty, but we didn't have you know, 371 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:22,439 Speaker 9: we never had a car. I never had internet at 372 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:25,479 Speaker 9: my own place. We never had cable. I got all 373 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:29,080 Speaker 9: these things, you know, spending weekends at my friend's house 374 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:32,359 Speaker 9: or something. That's where I kind of became aware of 375 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:35,520 Speaker 9: what the working class in middle class people had, you know. 376 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:39,000 Speaker 9: It gave me those a sense of aspiration to you know, 377 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:41,160 Speaker 9: if I go to school and do such and such, 378 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:43,960 Speaker 9: I can have these things, and I can provide these 379 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:45,919 Speaker 9: opportunities for my friends and family. 380 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:49,800 Speaker 5: It was during these weekends at his friend's house, while 381 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:55,000 Speaker 5: watching Saturday morning cartoons that Ilio became interested in science, math, 382 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:55,840 Speaker 5: and technology. 383 00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:59,280 Speaker 9: I used to love Dexter's Laboratory still do, would watch 384 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:01,399 Speaker 9: that in a heartbeat any day. I wanted to be 385 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:01,920 Speaker 9: like Dexter. 386 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:06,640 Speaker 8: Dexter my sensors have picked up a giant meteor headed. 387 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:07,560 Speaker 5: Directly for Earth. 388 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 9: That I wanted to have my own lab. I wanted 389 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:17,080 Speaker 9: to build my own robots and do my own science experiments. 390 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:24,560 Speaker 5: Like Christina. He'd also watched Nova and Catching Cosmos, all 391 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:28,000 Speaker 5: shows that really opened his eyes to what the universe had. 392 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:31,720 Speaker 9: Fantasy played a lot into how I shaped I guess 393 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:36,119 Speaker 9: and how I formed what I believed in and created 394 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:37,800 Speaker 9: a vision in a way of what I wanted to 395 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:39,120 Speaker 9: become involved. 396 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:45,240 Speaker 5: With Elliot would stay in Puerto Rico until around the 397 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:48,280 Speaker 5: time he was in eighth grade. Then he would have 398 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:49,320 Speaker 5: to relocate again. 399 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:51,600 Speaker 9: It was two thousand and six, two thousand and seven, 400 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:55,240 Speaker 9: that's when the economy in Puerto Rico really starts spiraling 401 00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:57,760 Speaker 9: out of control into what it is today. My mom 402 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 9: saw those patterns because she had lived through them in Ecuador. 403 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:03,240 Speaker 9: She knew what was to come. 404 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:07,000 Speaker 5: It was also an important time in Elio's life because 405 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,000 Speaker 5: he was about to go to high school and his 406 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:12,360 Speaker 5: mom knew that the high school process would be important 407 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,520 Speaker 5: for him to go to college. His brother and sister 408 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:19,040 Speaker 5: in law ended up moving to Florida, so Elio moved 409 00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:21,199 Speaker 5: back to New York City in the middle of its 410 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:24,240 Speaker 5: eighth grade year. He would then go to high school. 411 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:28,359 Speaker 5: With the importance of education instilled in him. Elio would 412 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 5: then go to the University of Michigan and study mechanical 413 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:35,840 Speaker 5: engineering as his major and electrical engineering as his minor. 414 00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:39,760 Speaker 5: He would do internships at SpaceX, Boeing and other places, 415 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,919 Speaker 5: then complete grad school before joining NASA. 416 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,800 Speaker 9: For five years almost I have been involved with the 417 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 9: System TESTBA team. We have the Earth equivalent models, all 418 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:54,200 Speaker 9: of the subsystems that are going to go to Mars. 419 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:57,639 Speaker 9: The Earth equivalent models live here on Earth and they 420 00:26:57,800 --> 00:26:58,720 Speaker 9: stay here on Earth. 421 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:02,320 Speaker 5: He said. This allows them to test every hardware and 422 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:06,359 Speaker 5: software interaction they can think of and simulate a Mars 423 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:10,720 Speaker 5: environment through inputs that makes the rover and spacecraft computers 424 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:14,119 Speaker 5: believe that they are going through the launch, space descent 425 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:18,399 Speaker 5: and landing onto the red planet. The simulations allow them 426 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,760 Speaker 5: to anticipate any issues and fix them ahead of time. 427 00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:27,920 Speaker 9: I specialize on particular subsystems, including the mechanical, the motor control, 428 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:32,119 Speaker 9: the head of the rover, the cameras, which were the 429 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:35,480 Speaker 9: first images we got down. I had tested for years, 430 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:37,960 Speaker 9: the high gain antenna, which is the antenna on the 431 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:41,920 Speaker 9: rover that lets us speak directly to the rover as 432 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:46,040 Speaker 9: well as communicate certain telemetry directly from the rover to Earth. 433 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,240 Speaker 5: Elio says that the people who are now operating the 434 00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:52,320 Speaker 5: rover on Mars also had to be tested. 435 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,080 Speaker 9: I was leading many of these efforts on the test 436 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:59,480 Speaker 9: bed side, where you throw wrenches at people's processes. We 437 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:03,639 Speaker 9: call it becoming gremlins, and as modern data equivalents, we 438 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:08,200 Speaker 9: were impostors trying to you know, spoil the team in 439 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:11,320 Speaker 9: some way or form so that the teams were prepared 440 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:15,760 Speaker 9: to react in the case similar events happened on Mars 441 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:16,640 Speaker 9: or on the way to Mars. 442 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,920 Speaker 5: But testing isn't the only thing he's part of. He's 443 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:25,360 Speaker 5: also part of another historic team, the Ingenuity Team. 444 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:28,240 Speaker 12: More than one hundred and sixty million miles from Earth 445 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:31,920 Speaker 12: and aircraft is sitting on an alien world waiting to 446 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:36,800 Speaker 12: make history. NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which traveled to Mars with 447 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:41,560 Speaker 12: the Perseverance Rover, will soon attempt the first powered flight on. 448 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:45,960 Speaker 5: Another planet, Aliothis. He and others had been working on 449 00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:48,240 Speaker 5: this for a while now, just. 450 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:50,000 Speaker 9: About a little bit more than one hundred years ago. 451 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:51,720 Speaker 9: We're learning how to fly here on Earth. And now 452 00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:55,360 Speaker 9: you know to recognize that we actually took a piece 453 00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:57,880 Speaker 9: of the of the tarp from one of the original 454 00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:01,920 Speaker 9: Wright Brothers vehicles and it lives inside of Ingenuity. 455 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:05,600 Speaker 5: The Wright Brothers, the fathers of aviation in the US. 456 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:11,320 Speaker 5: On April nineteenth, Ingenuity became the first aircraft to fly 457 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:12,840 Speaker 5: on another planet. 458 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,040 Speaker 9: I hope that over the next few years and decades 459 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,600 Speaker 9: will see this new aerial capability be used, be it 460 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:23,040 Speaker 9: for a scientific purpose, right so you equip helicopters or 461 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:27,040 Speaker 9: drones with scientific instruments and do different kinds of science. 462 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:30,840 Speaker 9: But also with the eventual human presence on Mars, that 463 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,040 Speaker 9: the humans will be able to bring these scouts right 464 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,920 Speaker 9: to help them navigate the terrain on Mars and map 465 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:40,479 Speaker 9: their surroundings so that they're more aware of what's around them. 466 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:44,080 Speaker 9: And I'm super excited for what Ingenuity is about to 467 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:45,080 Speaker 9: teach us on March. 468 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:04,000 Speaker 5: As we mentioned in the very beginning of the episode, 469 00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:09,120 Speaker 5: this recent mission was built off previous ones. Alejandro Miguel 470 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:12,240 Speaker 5: San Martin is the chief Engineer of Guidance and Control 471 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:17,040 Speaker 5: Section at NASA JPL. He's been with NASA since the eighties. 472 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:20,440 Speaker 2: Part of the Sign of Perseverance, for example, the spacecraft 473 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:24,480 Speaker 2: that transport Perseverance from Earth to Mars is a design 474 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:27,040 Speaker 2: that we did for Mars Patsfinder in the nineties. 475 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:31,200 Speaker 5: That mission, Miguel's first on Mars, landed on the red 476 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:34,920 Speaker 5: planet on July fourth, nineteen ninety seven, with the rover 477 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:36,560 Speaker 5: companion named Sojourner. 478 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:40,920 Speaker 6: The small, twenty five pound, six wheeled rover, only designed 479 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:44,040 Speaker 6: to last a week, would end up spending eighty three days, 480 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:48,280 Speaker 6: capturing five hundred and fifty pictures and taking atmospheric measurements 481 00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:49,360 Speaker 6: from the planet's surface. 482 00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:52,960 Speaker 5: He says during that mission they were encouraged to follow 483 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,360 Speaker 5: their product all across the mission, so from the very 484 00:30:56,440 --> 00:31:00,720 Speaker 5: initial design to the implementation, to the testing and then 485 00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:03,880 Speaker 5: flying it. He says at that point he felt like 486 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:06,160 Speaker 5: he'd be lucky if he was to ever be part 487 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:07,320 Speaker 5: of another Mars mission. 488 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:12,040 Speaker 2: I remember having a conversation with a veteran of JPL 489 00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:15,600 Speaker 2: that was part of the Pathfinder. He said that I 490 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,280 Speaker 2: feel sorry for you guys, because you know I'm about 491 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,400 Speaker 2: to retire, so this is a great way to retire. 492 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:22,840 Speaker 2: But you guys, will you know in the beginning of 493 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:26,240 Speaker 2: your career you will never experience another mission like this. 494 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:30,640 Speaker 5: His colleague was wrong. Miguel and many of his coworkers 495 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:34,080 Speaker 5: would get an opportunity to work on another mission, the 496 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,880 Speaker 5: landing of twin rovers, Spirit and Opportunity on Mars in 497 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:41,800 Speaker 5: different days of January of two thousand and four. Then, 498 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:44,280 Speaker 5: he says, they also used a lot of the same 499 00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:46,360 Speaker 5: designs from the Pathfinder mission. 500 00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:50,560 Speaker 2: And then came Curiosity, where also the same group of 501 00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:52,960 Speaker 2: a team of people that we met in past Finder 502 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:56,920 Speaker 2: we continue evolving and inventing new ways of landing on 503 00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:00,600 Speaker 2: Mars in the case of Curiosity, because all the previous 504 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:05,360 Speaker 2: missions that that landed on Mars use airbags, so I 505 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:08,040 Speaker 2: wanted to work on a mission that landed softly. 506 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,920 Speaker 5: And the team created a landing contraption that landed the 507 00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:15,480 Speaker 5: rover like a helicopter. Miguel would go on to work 508 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:18,920 Speaker 5: on other missions, including the landing of Perseverance. 509 00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:22,320 Speaker 2: It was a new experience for me because in the 510 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:25,200 Speaker 2: previous missions, first of all, I was part of the mission. 511 00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:28,240 Speaker 2: In this one in Perseverance that was a consultant. The 512 00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:32,840 Speaker 2: Perseverance team would come to me with questions, you know, 513 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:38,200 Speaker 2: and during the actual trip to Mars, I was part 514 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:43,320 Speaker 2: of also of a team that provided regular consultation to 515 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:43,760 Speaker 2: the team. 516 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:47,760 Speaker 5: Miguel is originally from Argentina. He was born on a 517 00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:51,040 Speaker 5: family farm in La Patagonia, but grew up and went 518 00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:55,240 Speaker 5: to school in Buenos Aiis. Every winter and summer vacation, though, 519 00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:57,200 Speaker 5: he'd go back to the family farm. 520 00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:00,440 Speaker 2: That's where my father taught me about this the stars. 521 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:04,040 Speaker 2: He was a civil engineer and he built roads, dirt 522 00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,920 Speaker 2: roads in some cases in the Patagonia, and for that 523 00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:12,520 Speaker 2: you know, before GPS, they navigated using the stars, So 524 00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:14,640 Speaker 2: my father knew the stars. So at night in the 525 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:16,760 Speaker 2: farm he would teach me all the constellations and all 526 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:17,200 Speaker 2: the stars. 527 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:20,920 Speaker 5: Miguel began to develop the mind of an engineer. 528 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,680 Speaker 2: I was, you know, fascinated about all the machinery, particularly 529 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:28,840 Speaker 2: in the farm, and all the mechanical equipment, and also 530 00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:31,200 Speaker 2: you know, the radios and the TVs, and so at 531 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,480 Speaker 2: a very early age, I wanted to be an engineer. 532 00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:37,520 Speaker 5: And then something that he vividly remembers to this day, 533 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,120 Speaker 5: he saw a man stepping onto the Moon for the 534 00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:41,880 Speaker 5: first time. 535 00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:47,160 Speaker 13: Armstrong is on the Moon Neil Armstrong, thirty eight year 536 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:51,240 Speaker 13: old American standing on the surface of the Moon on 537 00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:54,360 Speaker 13: this July twentieth, nineteen hundred and sixty nine. 538 00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:56,240 Speaker 7: At one man. 539 00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:05,240 Speaker 5: The Apollo mission had a profound impact on him. 540 00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:09,960 Speaker 2: First of all, I remember being very aware of the risks. 541 00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:12,040 Speaker 2: Are they really going to do that? I mean, it 542 00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:14,880 Speaker 2: was kind of like hard to believe that they were 543 00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:17,640 Speaker 2: going to attempt such a thing. So it was late 544 00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:20,719 Speaker 2: at night and we were on the with my father, 545 00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:22,960 Speaker 2: my mother, and my sister watching in front of a 546 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,840 Speaker 2: black and white TV, and we seen ne l Armstrong 547 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:28,759 Speaker 2: coming down the ladder, and remember that we were, you know, 548 00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:33,080 Speaker 2: glued to the TV, and we just couldn't believe it, right, 549 00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:36,400 Speaker 2: And I looked at my father right that he was 550 00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:40,960 Speaker 2: born like in nineteen eleven, and it was an incredible 551 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:42,880 Speaker 2: experience for the family. 552 00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:47,880 Speaker 5: Watching Armstrong walk on the moon sparked Miguel's curiosity and 553 00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:52,600 Speaker 5: wonder final confirmation of his love and interest in space 554 00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:56,040 Speaker 5: would come a few years later, in nineteen seventy six 555 00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:58,360 Speaker 5: with NASA's Viking project. 556 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,719 Speaker 2: And I found myself in farm actually the day of 557 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:05,759 Speaker 2: the landing, listening to the BBC on the radio, and 558 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:10,000 Speaker 2: that night the program says, well, all the systems are go, 559 00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:14,040 Speaker 2: and in a few hours Viking is going to land 560 00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:17,080 Speaker 2: on Mars for the first time, the US attempt for 561 00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:17,680 Speaker 2: the first time. 562 00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:21,520 Speaker 5: The next day, in front of a newspaper stand, he 563 00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:24,880 Speaker 5: saw a photo of the Viking one spacecraft on the 564 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:26,680 Speaker 5: surface of Mars, and. 565 00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:28,920 Speaker 2: I remember that has a huge impact on me, and 566 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:30,880 Speaker 2: that's when I said, this is this is what I 567 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:33,040 Speaker 2: want to do. I want to be on one of 568 00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:34,719 Speaker 2: these missions when I grow up. 569 00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:37,960 Speaker 5: His father told him that his best bet would be 570 00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:41,280 Speaker 5: studying in the US. So when he finished high school, 571 00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:44,800 Speaker 5: he packed his bags and left behind his family, friends 572 00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:48,360 Speaker 5: and country. He says this was the hardest thing he 573 00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:51,440 Speaker 5: ever had to do. He had to learn English and 574 00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:55,680 Speaker 5: figure out how to get accepted into university, but he 575 00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:59,120 Speaker 5: worked his way through. He made it to Syracuse, where 576 00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:02,480 Speaker 5: he studied elect engineering and went on to graduate school 577 00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:03,120 Speaker 5: at MIT. 578 00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,000 Speaker 2: And I remember that I got a little piece of 579 00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:09,400 Speaker 2: paper from one of the administrative persons in their Aerona 580 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:12,400 Speaker 2: Astro department and my tea saying JPL is coming tomorrow 581 00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:16,680 Speaker 2: to interview. So I shut it up and I talked 582 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:19,279 Speaker 2: to the engineer doing the interview, and they flew me 583 00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:21,480 Speaker 2: to JPL and they offered me a job, and the 584 00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:22,600 Speaker 2: rest is history. 585 00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:25,800 Speaker 5: His dad was able to see him go through college 586 00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:29,680 Speaker 5: and get the job at JPL, but unfortunately passed away 587 00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:32,000 Speaker 5: before Pathfinder made it to Mars. 588 00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:36,319 Speaker 2: So that aspect, I'm a little sad that by five 589 00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:40,279 Speaker 2: years or so, for five years he passed away before that. 590 00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:42,560 Speaker 2: So it would have been nice for him to see that, 591 00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:45,560 Speaker 2: because that was when when mass Part found the land. 592 00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:48,800 Speaker 2: That is when I actually I could say, you know, 593 00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:53,360 Speaker 2: I have achieved my goal. I could actually feel that 594 00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:56,200 Speaker 2: all the sacrifice of leaving the country and my family 595 00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:59,640 Speaker 2: and friends paid off or you know, or was worth 596 00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:00,760 Speaker 2: it in some ways. 597 00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,759 Speaker 5: But before his father's death, Miguel was able to bring 598 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:08,560 Speaker 5: both his mom and his dad to visit NASA's JPL. 599 00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:13,239 Speaker 2: He just was blown away, right, I mean, he immediately 600 00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:14,520 Speaker 2: loved the place. 601 00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:17,560 Speaker 5: He says that visit was a turning point for his 602 00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:21,080 Speaker 5: mom too, who through the years had always asked him 603 00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:25,919 Speaker 5: in letters from Aargentina, why did he leave her. After 604 00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:28,880 Speaker 5: that visit, his mom wrote him saying. 605 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:32,759 Speaker 2: Now I understand why you're there, and I won't ask 606 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:34,560 Speaker 2: you anymore why did you leave me? 607 00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:38,600 Speaker 5: Despite his long career at NASA, Miguel doesn't have any 608 00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:42,040 Speaker 5: plans of slowing down. He plans to join an upcoming 609 00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:46,560 Speaker 5: mission to retrieve the samples collected on Mars, and hopes 610 00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:48,880 Speaker 5: to be part of other projects elsewhere. 611 00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:52,440 Speaker 2: I mean, Mars is awesome, it's cool, but you know, 612 00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:54,520 Speaker 2: we have other destinations too. 613 00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:59,239 Speaker 5: When looking back at his life and career, he says 614 00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:01,480 Speaker 5: he can't believe how fortunate he's been. 615 00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:04,400 Speaker 2: I wouldn't have been able to do this without the 616 00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:07,160 Speaker 2: support of my family, you know. And it's been a 617 00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:10,400 Speaker 2: long journey and I never imagined to be honest, that 618 00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:13,760 Speaker 2: I would be so lucky to fulfill what I wanted 619 00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:18,800 Speaker 2: to do, one beyond my wildest imaginations, and I'm a 620 00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:19,520 Speaker 2: happy person. 621 00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:35,520 Speaker 3: Dianna Trujillo, Christina hernandez, Elio Morio, and Alejandro Miel San 622 00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:39,759 Speaker 3: Martin left some partying and inspirational words for Latinos and 623 00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:43,279 Speaker 3: Latinas and well anyone else who might have a dream 624 00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:47,320 Speaker 3: of someday pursuing a job at NASA or a career 625 00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:48,040 Speaker 3: in stem. 626 00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:52,279 Speaker 14: Here they are again, write it down, Write it down 627 00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:55,600 Speaker 14: and remember it because you can do it. For me, 628 00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:58,360 Speaker 14: it was to write it down and open it on 629 00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,880 Speaker 14: the mirror on my room, and every time I was, 630 00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:04,440 Speaker 14: you know, brushing my teeth, I will just read the 631 00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:05,400 Speaker 14: thing that I wanted to do. 632 00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:09,040 Speaker 7: Don't give up your dreams, and then keep pushing because 633 00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:09,600 Speaker 7: it can be done. 634 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,120 Speaker 8: I often think about the words of wisdom that my 635 00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:19,239 Speaker 8: grandmother has told me, and so obviously h Ganas, but 636 00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:22,279 Speaker 8: she also told me one that I really hold true. 637 00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:24,120 Speaker 7: She was like, in signe. 638 00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:30,000 Speaker 8: Is to me what that means is, you know, be 639 00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:33,719 Speaker 8: self sufficient, you know, get dirty, you know, get in 640 00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:38,760 Speaker 8: there and give it your all for you know, students 641 00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:43,520 Speaker 8: who want to come into engineering, be fearless because I 642 00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:47,759 Speaker 8: think oftentimes we are taught, you know, don't stir the pot, 643 00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:51,200 Speaker 8: don't get in trouble. If you think you're going to 644 00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:54,600 Speaker 8: break it, don't touch it. And here I'm trying now 645 00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:58,960 Speaker 8: to undo all of that past advice, and I'm encouraging 646 00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:02,200 Speaker 8: others to do this same because the more you tinker, 647 00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:06,719 Speaker 8: the more you fail, you eventually start to build your confidence. 648 00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:07,759 Speaker 2: You know. 649 00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:11,200 Speaker 9: I love to tell students and people that want to 650 00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:13,680 Speaker 9: pursue these careers that it's absolutely worth it. It's by 651 00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:16,400 Speaker 9: no means easy. This is a very hard career. It 652 00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:19,920 Speaker 9: requires a lot of sacrifice, but you know, it's beautiful 653 00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:22,080 Speaker 9: and all of that. I just hope to inspire a 654 00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,840 Speaker 9: few students, if at all right, to come and pursue 655 00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:27,200 Speaker 9: and join me over here. As I tell people, you know, 656 00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:28,280 Speaker 9: sometimes it gets lonely. 657 00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:28,440 Speaker 5: Right. 658 00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:31,239 Speaker 9: There's not that many Latinos here, and I hope to 659 00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:32,880 Speaker 9: see more in the coming years. 660 00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:36,400 Speaker 2: You need to start working from day one. We are 661 00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:38,560 Speaker 2: not all good in everything, right, so you need to 662 00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:41,480 Speaker 2: understand what is your thing that you're passionate and you're 663 00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:44,919 Speaker 2: good at, and then you just concentrate and do well 664 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,840 Speaker 2: at that moment. You can have a goal of working 665 00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:50,600 Speaker 2: for NASA. That's a good long term goal to have, 666 00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,600 Speaker 2: but your short term goal should be do well on 667 00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:56,520 Speaker 2: what you're doing at this moment and be excellent at it, 668 00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:58,880 Speaker 2: and then the doors will open. 669 00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:13,480 Speaker 3: And before we go, we want to give a special 670 00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:16,360 Speaker 3: shout out to some of the other Latinos and Latinas 671 00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:19,880 Speaker 3: with fabulous names, by the way, who took part in 672 00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:26,600 Speaker 3: the Perseverance Mission. So two Danielle Nunez, Clara o'ferrol, Eric Aguilard, 673 00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:34,440 Speaker 3: Fernando Aviguera, Fernando er Hicks, Erman Martinez, Ivai Contijo, Jorge Nunez, 674 00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:43,200 Speaker 3: Jorge Pla, Garcia, Joss, Antonio Rodriguez, Manfredi, Paul Rugarolas Roxanna Gonzalez, Borgos, Tamalis, 675 00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:48,880 Speaker 3: Santini de Leon, Sandra Nandiz, Corrin Rojas, Sara Eurex and 676 00:41:49,640 --> 00:42:06,320 Speaker 3: everyone else involved Gacias. This episode was produced by Renaldo 677 00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:10,320 Speaker 3: Leanoz Junior and edited by Andrea Lopez Cruzsado. The Latino 678 00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:16,520 Speaker 3: USA team includes Miel Massias, Marta Martinez, Julieta Martinelli, Victoria Estrada, 679 00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:21,040 Speaker 3: Gini Montalbo Alejandra Salasad and Julia Rocha, with help from 680 00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:25,279 Speaker 3: Raoul Perez. Our engineers are Stephanie Lebau, Julia Caruso, and 681 00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:28,719 Speaker 3: Lea Shaw. Our digital editor is Luis Luna. Our New 682 00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:32,800 Speaker 3: York Women's Foundation Ignite fellow is Maries Kinca. Our intern 683 00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:36,239 Speaker 3: is Oscar de Leon. Our theme music was composed by 684 00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:38,960 Speaker 3: Sanie Rubinos. If you like the music you heard on 685 00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:42,160 Speaker 3: this episode, stop by Latino Usa dot org and check 686 00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:45,800 Speaker 3: out our weekly Spotify playlist. I'm your host and executive 687 00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:49,280 Speaker 3: producer Marie no Josa. Join us again on our next episode, 688 00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:51,759 Speaker 3: and in the meantime, I'll see you on all of 689 00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:54,680 Speaker 3: our social media Astella Proxima c CAO. 690 00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:01,120 Speaker 15: Latino Usa is made possible in part by the Heising 691 00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:08,360 Speaker 15: Simon's Foundation Unlocking Knowledge, opportunity and possibilities more at Hsfoundation 692 00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:12,880 Speaker 15: dot org, the Ford Foundation, working with visionaries on the 693 00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:17,440 Speaker 15: front lines of social change worldwide, and the wind Coade Foundation. 694 00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:25,640 Speaker 7: A middle schooler rowe an essay about what the name 695 00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:29,480 Speaker 7: of the March twenty twenty mission should be. He tries 696 00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:34,160 Speaker 7: to make the analogy of human qualities and characteristics of 697 00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:39,080 Speaker 7: who we are with the names Spirit, Opportunity, curiosity, and 698 00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:41,120 Speaker 7: then I believe he said something along the line. So 699 00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:44,080 Speaker 7: but if those are the qualities of humans, we have 700 00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:46,400 Speaker 7: missed the most important while, which is perseverance. 701 00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:52,480 Speaker 3: I'm Maria Nojosa. Next time on Latino USA. Alexandria or 702 00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:57,120 Speaker 3: Cassio Cortees, the congresswoman from New York, opens up about 703 00:43:57,160 --> 00:43:59,520 Speaker 3: the past year in a personal one on. 704 00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:04,560 Speaker 15: One inter Sixty seconds could have meant potentially the difference 705 00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:08,000 Speaker 15: between what we have right now in a martial state. 706 00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:10,360 Speaker 3: That's next time on Lettino USA.