I saw that the project manager for this flight is a thirty year old woman from Burma whose mother was the first person from Burma to attend school in the U.S. on a Math scholarship.
I am a champion for both genders. That is not to say at all that a man couldn't have done it, to be fair. She was so exited and thrilled in the video of her watching it happen on the news last night.
I wondered too how a helicopter could fly in such thin air. It flew for 39 seconds. The news clip said it will pave the way for drones to further explore Mars. I hate to say this, but it looks to me it will find endless clay colored soil and some rocks. That is why I have never been hired for anything scientific. I was pretty good at teaching small children and I loved every second of it.
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