They've been focused on the fact that parts of Starliner will get jettisoned and burn up the atmosphere, and that means NASA won't be able to study them anymore.
And because he was able to jettison himself across the lake at 32 miles per hour, he achieved a new world record, even if he got soaked right afterward.
Opportunity was sent off to inspect the jettisoned heat-shield that had protected it as it burned down through the Martian atmosphere, now a glinting monument on the pockmarked plain.