Richard Cook
Richard Cook
ideas less plan
We're sprouting new ideas as we go along, and the plan is more or less the same.
closer ideas lots theories
I know they have lots of theories and ideas, but I don't know that they're any closer to nailing things down.
particular premature
It is very much premature to say it is any particular cause.
campus safety welfare
It's a safety and welfare issue. It'll make our campus safer.
changing direction moving takes
It's like a battleship changing course. It takes a while, but we're moving in the right direction.
christmas light looking power signal tree
The signal we are looking for is very, very weak, about 1 watt of power -- or like looking for a Christmas tree light on Mars,
factors several team tension
The tension on the team is up by several factors because of what happened.
confident few mars orbit signal spacecraft
At this point, we're still very confident that we're in orbit in Mars and that we're going to see the spacecraft signal in a few hours.
loss resulted
It potentially resulted in the loss of the mission.
belief everybody goes less signal telling time
As time goes by, and I'm not telling you otherwise, we're less confident. At this point, though, we still have a lot of things we can try and we're doing that ... Everybody has the belief that we can still get a signal from the spacecraft.
continuing draw extremely forever likelihood plus remote sort spend works wrong
The way it works is that you can spend forever continuing to do things. It could be this thing went wrong plus that thing went wrong and another thing went wrong. But the likelihood is extremely remote and so we sort of draw the line.
associated descent landing risk
Entry, descent and landing are very complex, and a lot of things have to go correctly. That's just part of the risk associated with the mission.
arms issues looked technical
We've looked at a lot of the technical issues and, hopefully, have our arms around a lot of them.
below breaking certain concerns level pieces spacecraft
When you get below a certain level you have concerns about overheating the spacecraft or potentially breaking pieces of it off,