It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
- Seneca
Martian Robots, Taking Orders From a Manhattan Walk-Up
New York Times
Sunday 7 November 2004, 12:56 pm
Keywords: News Articles
By Kenneth Chang
These days, when one of NASA's rovers drills a hole in a rock on
Mars, the commands come from Lower Manhattan, from a second-floor
office on Elizabeth Street, surrounded by dusted-off tenements.
"It is almost surreal. "You walk down the street and there are shoe stores, bakeries and here we're controlling some robotic mechanism on Mars."
