"We can't get too excited about launch. A Mars mission is all about landing. But we'll take our



"We can't get too excited about launch. A Mars mission is all about landing. But we'll take our successes as they come."
Firouz Naderi
Manager of Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Mars exploration program, which sent a NASA rover into space.
"I was mortified and wanted to die rather than be locked up. I tried swallowing cement cut into four pieces of squares as well as sewage, rubbish and hair, but I didn't die. I could fill up thousands of pages about my suffering in jails."
Ji Hae Nam
Of her years of detention in North Korea.