The Pathfinders

The Pathfinders (2017)

JPL

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2017-01-01
  • Runtime: 1h 2min
  • Director: Blaine Baggett

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Summary

It started with an order to land something on Mars - cheaply. In NASA's new era of "faster, better, cheaper," this mission had to create a radically different way of building a spacecraft. "The Pathfinders" tells the story of a small group of JPL'ers who dismissed warnings that a cut-rate mission to Earth's distant neighbor would cut short their careers. With a Martian parachute that could not be tested in Earth's atmosphere, and the last-minute addition of a remote controlled vehicle that would not look out of place in a toy store, the Pathfinder mission was a doubter's dream. Vet the future prospects of JPL and of a Mars program in its infancy, depended on bouncing successfully onto the rocky Red Planet and releasing a curious six-wheeled wanderer, in hopes of starting a revolution in space exploration.

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Visual Effects Kevin Lane Animation
Production Blaine Baggett Producer
Production Laura Cinco-Farrell Associate Producer
Writing Blaine Baggett Writer
Sound Neil Ross Vocals
Editing Arthur Hurley Editor
Crew John Beck Cinematography
Directing Blaine Baggett Director
Production Erik Conway Associate Producer