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Reporters that have been on board before, and by the way, these are those that we know on board, the 5, 1 not pictured there, but you look at the resumes of these folks and these are serious explorers, one in the guinness book of world records, these are people who understand the technology. what does it tell you that this happened less than two hours in, knowing that this vessel has had communications problems before that have prevented it to launch, in some cases delayed launch for six days. >> yeah, so again, i discussed those phases, so this happened in the very first phase and what they c...

Atmosphere. and the problem is, is that mars is far away. it takes about eight minutes at that particular time right now for a radio signal from mars to get here. so in the descent phase, about 6 1/2 minutes, suppose something happens three minutes in, it will send a signal to earth, but that signal won't get to us for eight minutes, which by the time we get it, it will be all over. so we have to depend on the engineers to have done their job right. >> so it's essentially, you know, on a megadel delay. and it's not like anyone sitting in this room can do anything about it. they're in it for th...