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-------------------------A day in the life of Mission Control
CNN gets exclusive peek behind Pathfinder's scenes
July 17, 1997
Web posted at: 10:50 p.m. EDT (0250 GMT)PASADENA, California (CNN) -- When the eyes of the world are on you, and your eyes are fixed on a point 120 million miles away, there may be no such thing as a typical day.
But, in an effort to get at the scene behind the scenes at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California -- which the brain trust behind Mars Pathfinder calls home -- CNN was given the exclusive opportunity to look at a "typical" day inside Mission Control.
Backstage at JPL, Correspondent Greg LaMotte found an ambiance that's a mixture of the technical and the whimsical.
CNN's Greg LaMotte reports from Pasadena.
For the same people who named those Mars rocks Yogi and Boo Boo can also utter the following phrase: "We had that phantom packet on the TDS queue when it turns up some odd packets."
He also discovered that piloting that rover around the surface of Mars isn't really as much like a video game as people might think.
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