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Disaster Watch.


Film director James Cameron

For other people named James Cameron, see James Cameron (disambiguation).


James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is an Academy Award winning Canadian director, producer and screenwriter.
 definitely has an eye for disaster.

The Academy Award-winning director of "Titanic" was spotted at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory “JPL” redirects here. For other uses, see JPL (disambiguation).

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a NASA research center located in the cities of Pasadena and La CaƱada Flintridge, near Los Angeles, California, USA.
 in Pasadena -- video camera in hand -- the day after the Mars Polar Lander The Mars Polar Lander was part of the NASA Mars Surveyor '98 program, which consisted of two spacecraft launched separately, the Mars Climate Orbiter (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Orbiter) and the Mars Polar Lander (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Lander).  was supposed to touch down on the Red Planet.

It seems Cameron is writing and directing an Imax-3D film about Mars and a five-hour miniseries for the Fox Network scheduled to air in the spring of 2001.

Cameron wasn't talking last week about his JPL (language) JPL - JAM Programming Language.  visit. But he got permission months ago from the lab to film the Mission Control room during the current Mars mission.

Little did he know disaster was dead ahead.
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Date:Dec 13, 1999
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