This document discusses what it takes to get to Mars based on insights from NASA scientists and engineers involved in Mars missions. It emphasizes that getting to Mars requires above-average ability, creativity, task commitment, and a willingness to take risks. It also stresses the importance of collaboration, deliberate practice, and an ability to adapt to change. The overall message is that daring mighty things requires persevering through both successes and failures to achieve glorious triumphs.
33. Creative people discover and realize
their visions over time and through
dedicated, protracted struggle.
Creative people discover and realize
their visions over time and through
dedicated, protracted struggle.
37. We never take
Mars for granted.
Mars is hard.
tHOMAS ZURBUCHENASSOC. ADMIN., NASA SCIENCE MISSION DIRECTORATE
tHOMAS ZURBUCHENASSOC. ADMIN., NASA SCIENCE MISSION DIRECTORATE
38. Far better is it to
DARE
MIGHTY THINGS
to win glorious triumphs,
even though checkered by failure,
than to rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy nor suffer much,
because they live in a gray twilight
that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
51. It is not the strongest that survives,
Nor the most intelligent….
It is the one that is most
ADAPTABLE TO CHANGE.
Those that have learned to
COLLABORATE
and IMPROVISE will prevail.
52. It is not the strongest that survives,
Nor the most intelligent….
It is the one that is most
ADAPTABLE TO CHANGE.
Those that have learned to
COLLABORATE
and IMPROVISE will prevail.
53. How NOT to form groups.
1. Write each student’s name on an index card.
2. Deal the cards into 4 equal piles according to
student ability (High, Medium High, Medium
Low, and Low)
3. Choose one card from each pile.
54. When I die, I want
the people I did
group projects with
to lower me into
my grave so they
can let me down
one last time.
85. Lt. Gen. Larry D. James
Deputy Director NASA/JPL
Be good at what
you do. There are a
LOT of others who
want to do this.
Lt. Gen. Larry D. James
Deputy Director NASA/JPL
86.
87. The greater danger for most of us
lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short;
but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Michelangelo
88. tHOMAS ZURBUCHENASSOC. ADMIN., NASA SCIENCE MISSION DIRECTORATE
tHOMAS ZURBUCHENASSOC. ADMIN., NASA SCIENCE MISSION DIRECTORATE