"Thanks to everyone!" Bridget Landry - June 23, 1997 Deputy Uplink Systems Engineer Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California |
Walking around the floor today, rereading all the good wishes we have posted
everywhere, I'm struck again by the support that has been offered so freely by so many.
From the sheets signed by the Mars Global Surveyor personnel wishing us a "nominal day"
for our launch, to the huge poster from the Galileo team, everyone at JPL has been
positive and upbeat.
But it doesn't stop there--letters from school children to their congress critters
asking for more support for the space program, the "Martian Driver's License" sent to our
rover drivers by one class, the enormous rocket with students' pictures and a "piece of
Mars" for it to land on, the advice, the good luck wished to us by children, students,
and people from all over--it's been overwhelming.
I just hope that when that first picture comes down from Mars next Friday, everyone
who has written, drawn, sculpted, or otherwise conveyed their support for our team
understands that they have been a part of it; not just in taxes paid, but in the
emotional energy, the reaching out, the curiosity, the drive to know more. Yes,
spacecraft require money to be built, but they also need people--those cheering and
watching no less than those with the wrenches and those at the keyboards. Knowing how
much everyone believes in us and is pulling for our success really brings out the best
in us. Thanks so much!
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