Adam Steltzner Quotes

Adam Diedrich Steltzner is an American NASA engineer who works for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory . He worked on several flight projects including Galileo, Cassini, Mars Pathfinder, Mars Exploration Rovers . He was the lead engineer of the Mars Science Laboratory's EDL phase , and helped design, build and test the sky crane landing system.The media has portrayed Steltzner as a "rock and roll" engineer. NPR's Morning Edition said "he has pierced ears, wears snakeskin boots and sports an Elvis haircut," while the EE Times called him "a bit of a hipster" and a "new breed of engineer" who is media savvy. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. June 1963
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Famous Adam Steltzner Quotes

“If you come up with a big new idea in our world and everyone says "Hey, that's great, definitely go ahead with that," then you know it's not a big new idea at all. Anything really new brings out all the reasons why it can't possibly work, and why it's crazy to even think about it.”

Marc Kaufman. Mars Up Close: Inside the Curiosity Mission https://books.google.com/books/about/Mars_Up_Close.html?id=o6XaCwAAQBAJ&hl=en. National Geographic page 15. ISBN 978-1-4262-1278-9.

“Exploring is fundamentally human; we've done it for thousands of years. It's an expression of something that's the best in us.”

Marc Kaufman. Mars Up Close: Inside the Curiosity Mission. National Geographic page 18. ISBN 978-1-4262-1278-9.

“…the general problem has received little attention and there is an opportunity for a meaningful contribution to the field.”

On the solution to input force estimation in his thesis; " Input Force Estimation, Inverse Structural Systems and the Inverse Structural Filter https://search.proquest.com/docview/304536848 (1999)

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