WATCH: NASA Control Room Erupts in Celebration Over Successful Spacecraft Touchdown on Mars

Ken MeyerNov 26th, 2018, 4:26 pm
 

Scientists and engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, CA went nuts on Monday after their InSight lander made a successful touchdown on Mars.

NASA launched the mining and exploration machine into space about seven months ago, and today, it finally reached the Red Planet after about 300 million miles of travel. InSight stands for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, and NASA hopes they’ll be able to use it for the next 2 years in order to study Mars’ seismic activity and environmental conditions.

As Mission Control monitored the landing process for about seven minutes, the room suddenly electrified when they received notice of “touchdown confirmed.” Multiple news outlets carried the landing as it happened, so there’s plenty of clips of people hugging, screaming and congratulating their colleagues on a job well done.

Here’s what NASA posted on their social media accounts.

Truly a historic day for science.

Watch above.

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