NASA's Curiosity landing- 1 of her creator's POV

Nasa JPL's rover named curiosity Successfully landed on mars a few days ago Appropriately, there's been a lot [of] focus on curiosity the rover but what I think makes jPL really great aren't it's robots It's the people who build them I can say this because I met a lot of them in the seven-year span I got to work on curiosity at JPL That's nearly my entire professional career and a quarter of my life I had a son and lost my mom to ALS while working on curiosity I'm a different person now than when I started as a result of this whole experience and all the people I've been able to associate with and while my Contributions small relative to the overall picture. I tried to capture here exactly what it felt like to basically have seven years of your life indicated with that beautiful phrase: " touchdown confirmed. we are safe on Mars" So we're still two days from landing, but you see the news media has already started to descend on JPL here since we're all kind of nerds around here our office pools looks a little different than most This is the landing ellipse for the Rover and we all kind of place guesses on where we think it's going to come down So we're headed down to Nasa JPL to hang out with everyone and watch the landing coming with my cute wife and my dad's gonna be there too It's pretty exciting kind of sick to my stomach at the same time Basically seven years of my life and career come down to about seven minutes I'm kinda freaking out I owe half my chomosomes to that guy right there is my dad excellent chances. I'm not nervous when Mark gets nervous he starts shivering like he's freezing and right now it's about 85 degrees out here so Mark is really nervous i used to watch the apprentice and right before they hit with the board room i'd have like eight blankets on me shivering something about the donald scared me (If I only knew what was coming 5 years later :/ We are in powered flight skycrane has started Touchdown confirmed. WE ARE SAFE ON MARS!!! It was honestly a moving experience to see that picture come up that showed the shadow of the Rover just dominating the Martian landscape It's just a crazy thought that something I've designed, I've touched, I've built, I've integrated I've tested, is now safely resting on another freaking planet It's a crazy feeling

Channel: Mark Rober

Views: 2,074,862

Rating: 4.9645562 out of 5

Keywords: Curiosity landing, Mars, Mars Rover, descent stage, EDL, 7 minutes of terror, science, awesome, Turtle, snake, roadkill, mario, glowing balloon, how, to, Halloween, costume, gaping hole in torso, iPad2, Mark Rober, Halloween costume, Arturo, Trejo, Qwiet, JPL, NASA, Jet, Proplusion, Laboratory, how to, gorilla iphone, gorilla

Id: PCKogFDM3Zg

Length: 4min 38sec (278 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 14 2012

Reddit Comments

[u/dolmaface]

I don't know why but

[u/snaremann]

This really puts the human element of the mission in context. Thanks for posting!

[u/[deleted]]

An excellent video!

Thanks for posting.

[u/oxgon]

I needed some happy emotion, I wish videos like this would be front page on places like /r/videos

If we can get this rover to mars we can get this video to front page of reddit!

[u/groceries]

This was great. Really amazing just to see it from his point of view and it made me tear up. Very exciting moment, and great video!

[u/Botron]

Whew, it's a little dusty in here...

[u/boolpies]

These and "Im a NASA scientist" are more interesting than and "Im a mormon"

[u/Yesod]

Wife is hot.

[u/MayorThis]

I love these videos. They always make me tear up.