“Hey everybody! I am glad that you are here to check out my episode on Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the engineering arm of NASA overseeing the robotic space exploring spacecraft gathering data from across the solar system!” – Cynthia Troyer
In Like Cyn
Season 2 Episode 8
JPL Open House
Published to Youtube February 11, 2016
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Season 2 Episode 8
JPL Open House
Published to Youtube February 11, 2016
[Cyn: Cynthia Troyer; AVK: Ariane Von Kamp; JVZ: Jakob Van Zyl; SE: Sage Emeralds]
TITLE: The Comedy Multiverse
TITLE: In Like Cyn
Cyn: Hello, hello and welcome to another episode of In Like Cyn.
SE: Wha-wha – what? Uh uh uh yo! Every thing I do is brand new I must continue… Everything I do is brand new I must continue…
TITLE: Cynthia Troyer / Screenwriter
Cyn: And today we are going to JPL – Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena. Today, they’re having their open house.
Cyn: And my co-host Ariane Von Kamp.
TITLE: Ariane Von Kamp / Writer, producer, actor
AVK: Hi! This is Gigi – she’s ah – my – my comic relief.
Cyn: Gigi! Gigi!
Cyn: So let’s go to Jet Propulsion Lab!
TITLE: 4800 Oak Grove Dr, Pasadena, CA 91101
Cyn: This is where NASA builds all of their rocket engines that we use to go to space.
Cyn OS: Lead the way, Gigi!
TITLE: JPL Open House
Cyn VO: JPL grew up with the Space Age and helped bring it into being. It is a place where science, technology, and engineering intermix in unique ways: to produce iconic robotic space explorers sent to every corner of the solar system, to peer deep into the Milky Way galaxy and beyond, and to keep a watchful eye on our home planet.
AVK: Hi!
Cyn VO: Analyzing the data pouring back from these machine emissaries, scientists around the world continue to discover how the universe, the solar system, and life formed and evolved.
Cyn VO: We were almost to the entrance when we met Shan Malhotra
TITLE: Shan Malhotra / JPL principal software engineer
Cyn VO: – Who has worked for JPL for a very long time.
Cyn VO: JPL’s beginnings can be traced to mid-1930’s, when Jack Parsons “The Father of Rocketry” and a few other Caltech students and amateur rocket enthusiasts started tinkering with rockets. After an unintended explosion occurred on campus, the group and its experiments relocated to an isolated area – here – north of Pasadena and next to the San Gabriel Mountains right where the JPL campus is today.
Cyn OS: Oh look it’s the Mars Rover!
Cyn VO: The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover. Launched from Cape Canaveral on November 26, 2011, the car-sized rover as of February 3, 2016 has been on Mars for 1,242 Sols or 1,276 days since landing in Gale Crater. JPL man this robotic rover studying climate and geology in preparation for future human exploration.
Cyn VO: Everywhere you looked there was something to do or something to explore.
AVK: Shan handles all the communications for inner space – so that was fascinating.
Cyn: And he’s been doing it for almost 30 years.
AVK: Yeah. Right outta school, came here.
Cyn: Yeah. Um…
AVK: He showed us an actual – the actual grid – ah travel grid from the movie Martian.
Crowd: That’s gotta be a dachshund mixed with something…
AVK: Yeah, what was that – it was a map of Mars…
Cyn: Yeah, it was a map of the area of the route that Matt Damon took or takes while living on Mars in the movie The Martian.
AVK: So we’re going to Mission Control among other places here at the NASA Open House Lab day. And it’s very exciting.
Cyn: So we’ve reached the area where they’re talking about black holes, and dark energy, and mapping the universe.
Cyn VO: Mapping the Early Universe. This ancient light, called the Cosmic Microwave Background, was imprinted on the sky when the universe was only 370,000 years old. It shows tiny temperature fluctuations that correspond to regions of slightly different densities.
Cyn VO: Investigating Dark Energy. The discovery that the expansion of space is accelerating was named by the journal Science as the 1998 Breakthrough of the Year! The cause of the unexpected acceleration is one of the most important scientific problems of our time.
Cyn VO: Black holes and the Death of Stars. Black holes, tears in the fabric of space-time from which no light can escape, are among the most exotic objects in the Universe. Small ones are remnants left over by the collapse of massive stars.
Cyn VO: This is a listing of all the robotic space explorers across our solar system.
Tour Guide: Move forward, please! Come on in and check it out. Can you all please move forward. Okay everyone. Move forward. Move forward.
JVZ: Hello everyone. I’m Jakob Van Zyl Associate Director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Why do we call this room the Center of the Universe? Take a look around. People in this room monitor the vast communications networks that tracks spacecraft and receives data being beamed home every day through the antenna of the Deep Space Network. This is the way we have been monitoring and controlling spacecraft for more than 50 years. The DSN team is sitting in the first two rows here. We have three rotating teams that help keep the data flowing 24 hours a day, seven days a week. To my right, we see a visualization of the three antenna complexes located around the world. The squiggly lines represent commands being sent up and data flowing down from across the solar system. At the back of the room are the mission controllers or ACEs as we like to call them. They command over two active rovers, Opportunity and Curiosity, and the Cassini Spacecraft, which has been exploring Saturn and its moons for more than a decade. To my right, you may recognize our critical operations room as you watched the terrifying moments when the Curiosity rover landed on the surface of Mars. In the next year, we’ll gear up for more exciting moments when the Juno spacecraft arrives and goes into orbit around Jupiter. Soon after, the NASA Insight Mission will attempt to land on Mars to study its deep interior and provide us further data on the Martian environment. Finally, as you leave today, step inside our photo gallery and see space images from past and present missions. Before you go, make sure to get a Center of the Universe sticker on your way out. Thanks again for stopping by.
Cyn: In Like Cyn! We found the photo booth.
AVK: The photo booth!
Cyn VO: Thanks for joining me and taking a trip to JPL.
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