"It wasn't dramatic, but it is exciting, " said chief engineer Marc Rayman of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

美国航天局喷气推进实验室的首席工程师马克。雷曼表示：“这并不是大事件，却让人兴奋。”

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It took more than 300 years and many more failed experiments until Sir George Cayley, a British engineer, determined that flight required lift, propulsion, and control.

300年后，一位英国工程师乔治·凯利在经过了无数次失败的实验后，终于得出了一个重要的结论：飞行需要抬升力、推进力和控制力。

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An ESA engineer working with engineers in the UK may have found a solution using a new type of orbit combined with continuous-thrust ion propulsion.

来自欧空局和英国的工程师们可能已经找到了解决方案——采用新型轨道与连续离子动力推进相结合的方式。

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"You probably would not damage your bumper if you hit a car at this speed, " said landing-system engineer Devin Kipp at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who helped design the parachute.

WSJ: Mars Mission Seeks a Happy Landing

"I personally like to think of it as an intellect upgrade, since the 'brain' remains the same, " said Jim Donaldson, the mission's avionics chief engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

MSN: Mars rover survives 'brain transplant' with flying colors

"The message did not arrive at the device meant to deploy the chute, " said Gentry Lee, chief engineer of planetary systems at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

CNN: High hopes to salvage Genesis science