Voices of MAVEN
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- Walt Feimer
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Members of NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN mission (MAVEN) share their experiences of working on the project.
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Watch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel.
On September 21, 2014, NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN mission, or MAVEN, went into orbit around the Red Planet. Its goal: to understand how a changing atmosphere transformed Mars from a warm, wet environment in its youth to the desert world that we see today. Building such a mission and sending it to Mars is a hugely complex task, requiring the close coordination of hundreds of individuals around the country. In this video, several of the team members who made the mission possible share their experiences of working on MAVEN.
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Credits
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Animators
- Walt Feimer (KBR Wyle Services, LLC) [Lead]
- Chris Smith (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Ernie Wright (USRA)
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
- Michael Lentz (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Video editors
- Dan Gallagher (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Katrina Jackson (USRA)
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Scientists
- Bruce Jakosky (LASP)
- David Folta (NASA/GSFC)
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Interviewees
- Bruce Jakosky (LASP)
- David F. Mitchell (NASA/GSFC)
- David L. Mitchell (Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley)
- Guy Beutelschies (Lockheed Martin Space Systems)
- Sandra Cauffman (NASA/GSFC)
- Stasia Habenicht (Lockheed Martin Space Systems)
- Wayne Sidney (Lockheed Martin Space Systems)
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Producer
- Dan Gallagher (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Videographers
- Dan Gallagher (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Rob Andreoli (AIMM)
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Project support
- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Series
This visualization can be found in the following series:Tapes
This visualization originally appeared on the following tapes:-
MAVEN Overview 2013
(ID: 2013054)
Wednesday, June 25, 2014 at 4:00AM
Produced by - Dan Jacob
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