As I mentioned to dragonet2, C-SPAN captured a nice story told at JPL by the estimable Steve Collins, spacecraft wrangler, in 2005.

C-SPAN's clip-embedding doesn't appear to work on LJ (at least, not this week), so go here. The page will want to create a popup window with a Flash player. I've marked Steve's part of the symposium, which starts around ( Read more... )