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So long is truly an honor. and peggy in particular is one of my heroines and she's been a mentor to me. so it's a great reminder to try to make her proud. and then also, to do mentorship when i get home to sort of pay that back. i hope that breaking the record is both, you know, good for outreach and also inspiration. outreach because it kind of gets the conversation going about state of the art, where we are in human exploration. and inspiring because i think kind of as a milestone, it can motivate people. i know for me, personally, it motivates me every single day, you know, on those rough d...

It is a tricked out vehicle. and you talked about human exploration and this will convert the mars atmosphere into oxygen and they will grab big rock samples and put them in ti tubes and then they can get the chun chunks. and they can land the rover into a crater. and now i'm hire inside the clean room. this is the 2020 rover $2.5 billion, the most tricked out vehicle in the solar system. and one thing that is new, terrain navigation. look at that, it has a camera in there and as it is parachuting down toward the crater, it is not the usual safe landing. it will take images and then

Ever since humans first began traveling into space, enthusiasts have dreamed of exploring mars. and it is moving ever closer to reality thanks to the mars 2020 rover. afrntd and t and the mission could help pave the way of human exploration. and now we go out to the jet proce propulsion lab. and this is a cool assignment. what can you tell us about it? >> reporter: well, i can tell you that i'm standing in front of a replica of the curiosity. but let's go to the roverer.

The mars desert research station is like going through a portal into another world. you see this tremendous formation. they look like they've been m meticulously arranged by a giant. i would say human exploration in space is one of the most challenging and ambitious things we've done as a human race. when you are a candidate for mars, you want your jack of all trades but at least master of some. experiencing flight, a lifelong martial artist, i'm a physician, i have a back ground in space medicine and space medicine research. everything do i in my life is related to reaching that goal. i want ...