Nasa's High Five Carousel

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I was watching the Landing of the Curiosity rover last night and noticed after the first images came in, everyone gathered in a lecture hall, gave some speeches and then broke out into what I can only describe as a High Five Carousel. Where the NASA scientists which worked on the rover, circled the room and enthusiastically high fived all of the higher up NASA managers.

The excitement was so infectious, what a great way to celebrate!

I was wondering if this is something that happens often after a mission success? Is there a better name for it than the high five carousel? Such a cool moment!

Found some video of the conference, the high fiving starts 5 minutes in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...zfDZlEwaU&NR=1

Congrats to everyone involved! I am really looking forward to the images that will come out of this historical mission!

Thanks,
Chris

[R.A.F.]

Is there a better name for it than the high five carousel?

Yes...in a word...relief.

[sts60]

I imagine most of them were folks who had managed the cruise and descent systems, and whose jobs were completed; and that most of the first shift rover team was still on console.

[djellison]

The people who came thru were mostly cruise and EDL folk indeed. They deserved their moment in the limelight. I was about 4/5ths the way around the route and was there to congratulate a LOT of them

Engineering Heroes.

It happened after Opportunity landed as well.

[Noclevername]

The people who came thru were mostly cruise and EDL folk indeed. They deserved their moment in the limelight. I was about 4/5ths the way around the route and was there to congratulate a LOT of them

Engineering Heroes.

It happened after Opportunity landed as well.

It must have been exciting to be there to congratulate them. Give 'em an extra slap for me!

...OK, that didn't come out right...

[KaiYeves]

The people who came thru were mostly cruise and EDL folk indeed. They deserved their moment in the limelight. I was about 4/5ths the way around the route and was there to congratulate a LOT of them

Engineering Heroes.

It happened after Opportunity landed as well.

Today, genius wears a pale blue shirt.

[Cougar]

Found some video of the conference, the high fiving starts 5 minutes in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...zfDZlEwaU&NR=1

More like about 10 minutes in. But thanks for the link.

[Luckmeister]

Today, genius wears a pale blue shirt.

And today, envy wears the shirt I have on. Jealousy is not an emotion to be proud of, but I'm guilty of it right now.

I've never seen a mission where so many participants said, "If it doesn't work, that's ok, we'll just try again." So many things had to go right. One system or action failure out of hundreds would have meant failure. The relief in that room reminded me of an olympic athlete crumpling to the floor in tears after just winning the gold medal.

I'm so proud of the Curiosity team. They're my heroes. <big fat grin with a tear in my eye>

Mike

[Centaur]

This Olympic moment is from Walt Handelsman of Newsday.

[R.A.F.]

That is excellent.

[NEOWatcher]

This Olympic moment is from Walt Handelsman of Newsday.

I like that.
Unfortunately, the "perfect 10" doesn't exist anymore. We need to add the difficulty score to it.
I'm sure it's in the high teens, at least.

[Trebuchet]

This Olympic moment is from Walt Handelsman of Newsday.

Except if it was like the Olympics, we Americans wouldn't have seen it on TV until primetime the next day!

[Centaur]

Except if it was like the Olympics, we Americans wouldn't have seen it on TV until primetime the next day!

With the exception of opening and closing ceremonies, NBC and its associated networks are broadcasting Olympic events in real time during the day. I'm watching USA vs. Australia women's water polo right now. Events are recorded and rebroadcast during prime time.

[ToSeek]

With the exception of opening and closing ceremonies, NBC and its associated networks are broadcasting Olympic events in real time during the day. I'm watching USA vs. Australia women's water polo right now. Events are recorded and rebroadcast during prime time.

It depends. I haven't verified it, but people complained NBC gave you no way of watching the men's 100m final live - you had to wait to prime time to see it. And I doubt that's the only event they've done that with.

[Centaur]

It depends. I haven't verified it, but people complained NBC gave you no way of watching the men's 100m final live - you had to wait to prime time to see it. And I doubt that's the only event they've done that with.

NBC did carry the men's 100 m final live on their Olympic website, but as you noted not on broadcast or cable television. So it was not a case of "no way" but perhaps not the ideal way. As you suggest, this unfortunately is true of several events.

My point in posting was to advise Americans who were unaware that they could see virtually every event live, if they have time during the day to do so.