Jim Erickson
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Jim Erickson
James "Jim" Erickson is a set decorator. He won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for his work in Lincoln, and was nominated for There Will Be Blood. He has also done set decoration for Ali and Independence Day...
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With the rovers we've actually been able to go look and pick the things we wanted to see whether it was up on top of hills or whether it was down inside the craters, you name it.
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Really, all we need to do is get to get to the beginning of McCool Hill, because we can climb the hill in that position.
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Everybody knows that eventually we will die. They are metal. They are machines. So sooner or later the tool will break.
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He is persisting in his fears. He was afraid of the police.
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It does cause tension in the family when you have to make choices between having Thanksgiving with your family and going off to solve a problem on the spacecraft.
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This was a great dress rehearsal for the Io encounters. We've been wondering how the spacecraft might hold up when it gets close to Io. This latest brush with radiation makes us think that the odds of survival may be fairly good.