In Their Own Words: MSL Launch Director Omar Baez

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Channel: NASA's Kennedy Space Center · 2011 · Science & Technology

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Omar Baez, the launch director for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, discusses the challenges and rewards that come with dispatching a 1-ton rover to the surface of another world. Baez, part of NASA's Launch Services Program, has taken part in the launches of the all the rovers operating on Mars.

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