The View From the Control Room: How InSight Landed on Mars
The View From the Control Room: How InSight Landed on Mars
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
November 27, 20187m 32s
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Show Notes
In the morning hours before NASA’s InSight spacecraft entered Mars’s atmosphere, roughly 30 employees of Lockheed Martin gathered in the company’s InSight Mission Support Area, in Denver. They all wore the same red button-down shirt adorned with a mission patch. Someone had taped red plastic over some of the fluorescent lights, to lend the room a martian ambience.
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