The Jet Propulsion Laboratory W/ Doug Ellison - Part 1 

It's crazy how much you can learn just by listening to two intelligent and well-informed people simply talk about something. Seriously Scott, this is one of your best videos yet.

I nominate Scott to visit every space museum in the world with a knowledgeable local in tow. Because this was amazing!

"I'm a photographer on Mars" is literally one of the coolest job descriptions I've ever heard.

My god, Doug was a fantastic to listen to. Most interesting video about NASA I can remember watching.

I've been watching your videos since starting my AE degree (and got an A in astronautics because of it) and had the pleasure of working at JPL this past summer as an engineering intern. If it weren't for your awesome videos about spaceflight and KSP I don't know if I would have the same fervor for rocketry or spaceflight as I do now. Working with UCI's rocket team, I can't help but think about the valuable lessons gained as a result of your channel! Thanks Scott!

Thank you Scott and Doug for making this video. I'm a huge fan of space exploration and this made me smile like a small child. Huge thumbs up to NASA and space community.

'martians will have 100 words for beige when we finally have some' RIP sides

Fun facts: The old NASA logo is called the "worm." The new one is called the "meatball." For external documents and presentations (those that will be seen outside of JPL), JPLers will say "stick a meatball on it."

Great job Doug Ellison for one of the most concise explanations of the two rovers (Curiosity and Opportunity) I have ever heard.

Absolutely loved this series. Thanks to Doug for being such a gracious, informative and engaging host as well. Cheers lads.

I miss it out there so much! I was an intern over the summer working on one of the secondary payloads of EM-1. I get to go back in just a couple of weeks for more training!! Glad more people get to see some of the stuff I saw.

Anyone who has seen Scott play KSP knows he should not be allowed within 1000ft of any rocket science stuff for risk of explosion... but hey...

2:15 now we know why aliens destroy everything with lasers! they simply analyze molecular composition of living objects on earth :)

I love it when Scott does these, I cant afford to go to the us, and look at all these amazing things. He's the perfect tour guide too!

Thanks for sharing Scott, very interesting.

I am loving this. Cant wait for part 2 - 1000

Thanks for this video, it was very interesting and informative. Doug was great, very fun to listen to. Please pass Doug Ellison thanks from all of us for a fantastic video. And thank you Scott for sharing!

Totally nerding out right now! Thanks Scott!

This is hands down the best overview of Curiosity I've seen. As well as the other spacecraft. Loving it!

So much appreciation for this, Scott and Doug. Legends! 🙌 Scott, I am always excited to watch new science videos from you. SUCH great content. Thank you so much.

Love the video Scott and Doug, its just like a personal tour with two super knowledgeable guides, cant wait for part 2 :)

Doug (and Scott), Thank you this was amazing. Jeremy clarkson has said many times that a machine can have a soul, when they're almost human because they're not perfect, Posssibly it's also true for ones that go above and beyond thier duty (like some people do) and not calling quits after some difficulties. So the mars rovers and even the some satelites such as galileo have that effect, (im not sure the ISS or hubble are there maybe perhaps because they just orbit).

At first I thought “Huh, a tour through JPL, probably not gonna be interesting” but it turned out to be really entertaining and informative! Great work, looking forward for part 2.

I can watch this all day! Thanks you!

so cool I have been going hiking behind JPL for years always wondered what it looked like inside

this is awesome content! I really appreciate the trivia. :D thank you, Scott!

2:15 We've already made the Terminator. We've just shot it to Mars...

I remember Scott explaining the Curiosity rover a while ago in a VR simulator. Actually, his info were really close to the ones that Doug gives. Congratulations Scott!

I think this is one of your best videos to date, Scott! I really enjoyed it!

I loved going here! The tour guides were very good and we got to see the Europa clipper being built

This is a great tour and video, thanks Scott!

DAMN SCOT, that was awesome! Really, thanks for bringing that kind of content for us

I spent sooo many hours in that museum, during my thesis... Thanks Scott, that made me feel a bit nostalgic :'D

Fascinating thanks for posting, watched part 2 also.

I loved this, one of the most enjoyable videos in my RU-vid feed that I've seen in ages, can't wait for the next part :D

Awesome tour!

Awesome job that the exhibit you're looking at is finished. When I was there it was still under construction.

That opening banter was fantastic. got a good laugh.

I love that the Galileo tape drive model has this nice blue laid out PCB, and a crap load of bodge wires overlaid on top of it. Clearly, multi-layer PCBs weren't yet in vogue.

I find it amusing that we've technically already made our first off-world tank armed with a laser :P Awesome video by the way

Scott.. Thanks for the video and keep up the good work. I look up to you.

Scott this video changed my perspective on so much!! Thank you!

So do you just wander around the JPL parking lot until someone who plays KSP recognizes you and offers to give you a tour?

Thank you! Thank you! Thank YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh wow, I was there in february this year, even though my tour wasn't nearly as detailed, it still was one of the most interesting places I ever had the opportunity of visiting.

Argh, darn it, I was looking forward to see the sky crane...

Wow! Great video! What a magical place...

3:40 could the selfies also be used as a way of inspecting the rover for damages?

I used to work there many moons ago. Worked on a lot of awesome stuff.

that was so cool to watch waiting for part 2 now

Man, am I jealous :-) That visit must have been awsome.

huh, the rover is much bigger than i sort of just assumed based off the self portraits it has sent back.

thx Scott realy an intreasting vid :) keep it up

Ah you gotta love that text auto fit in iMovie.

Nerd knowledge battle - love the information overload.

Truly excellent and fascinating. Makes me feel a bit inadequate trying to set up a home CCTV system.

Damn, Curiosity is huge. I always forget this.

A veritable temple of nerddom - great vid Mr. Manley! PS. Found out I use the same rover-as-guidance-computer idea in KSP (based on a SM design)! Parallel evolution FTW!

Just imagine what advanced rovers with larger data storages, super fast antennae and 12+ mega pixel color cameras. It’ll be great!

Nice getting a model of the Explorer 1 in the beginning!

The 'cyclops camera' is an extremely impressive bit of engineering.

Oh, shit! I know Doug! I've had beers with him after a resoundingly successful #JPLTweetUp… like, before they decided to call them a "NASA Social". Hell, yeah!

Man watch the sound levels, the outro almost tore my house down.

very jealous that Doug gets to touch the rover :)

I was there in the summer, it's a really cool place!

Awesome vid Scott! If i could like it twice, I would ;)

Awesome thank you!!!

I love this, definitely will watch the other parts as well. Audio could use some improvement (leveling/automation in post). Thanks for the effort, I really appreciate your videos!

Wow. Doug Ellison commentary is so erudite it just goes to show that NASA just really does hire the smartest people in the world. Fair play to them, it takes a lot of guts and patience to find these kind of people. I'm just glad an institution like NASA exists to look after them all. Scott, speaking to Doug does it not make you feel somewhat sad you are also not working there as well?

Literally too cool for this world.

Really like this video, very interesting !

This needs more views! Scott is branching out from KSP

You should ask them where they keep the EMDrive. Probably in with their dilithium crystals and unobtanium.

Please add captions for Curiosity tour. I can't make out any clever comments.

So... before AEGIS was the ApertureScience safety AI it was on Mars zapping Rocks with Lasers? That is so amazing! ^^

omg that galileo craft is huge !

I Really enjoyed this

So friggin cool!

Brilliant!

Thankyouthankyouthankyou - this is awesome!

never realized Galileo was so big!

Amazing!

Scott, you really need to take a trip to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to check out the Air and Space Museum there. It takes about six hours to walk through.

is that the actual size of the rover...its huge

You lucky git! I wish i could go to JPL its like disneyland for rocket geeks

That was great.

The video was super interesting to watch! Some of the best content you put out in a while. I hope you can get a better audio setup in the future though. The constant change from loud to quiet made this hard to watch.

Awesome.

I love your outro music.

Disneyland is for nerds?

Hey Scott, I have a question for you. What do you think of aerospikes ? Do you think they have a futur in space technology ?

It's so old fashioned looking. Giant lumps of metal.

Hey Scott, great video, thank you for doing this! Have you ever thought of buying a gimbal for your camera, in case you're gonna make more real life videos? That would be awesome

You didn't talk about the Morse Code on the wheels? That was one of my favorite stories I heard from the guy giving my family a tour.

The endeavor of fact videos continue!

We get to see Scott's head from the side!!!

Before you panned up to show the top of explorer one, I thought, hey, isn’t that a waypoint beacon from No Mans Sky?

Scott sounds like an evil robot throughout the entire video...

Well you know Mass has the world's biggest machine shop. It makes my life stop and go.

Exploder 1! Also, seems that we could use some Martian comsats...