NASA celebrates Mars InSight lander touching down on red planet

CBS News space consultant Bill Harwood joins CBSN as NASA mission control streams live coverage of the spacecraft's landing on Mars.

[dangermjort]

that handshake was something else.

Go ahead, you've earned it

[kingkarlxivjohanofsweden]

i swear, there is nothing that makes me more happy than people who have worked for a long time finally seeing their work pay off. i love happy science people

[iloveplasticbottles]

That handshake was outta this world

6:22

[isaacerickson]

Crazy part is, this all happened with a 20 minute delay. By the time they received the touchdown notification, the rover had already been on the ground for 20 minutes. Must be nerve wracking to just have to wait to see what happens

[elopezca]

The lady who is constantly giving the landing status report is so good at what she does!!

[bclark]

But did they get Matt Damon off safely?

[SpottedSharks]

0:15 Good to see Hank Schraeder is alive and well and working at NASA.

[cgeorge]

How awkward. They all wore the same outfit on landing day.

[Rainchild]

But did they use common core math though?

[arielatomhc]

6:19 watch the girl and guy doing their Patty Cake hand shake

[catalinacurio]

Beautiful! Thank you clever people! 👏👏👏👏💕🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[larryodea]

Well done NASA. Another incredible example of human cooperation and endeavor. Thank you. ✌️

[alexsantoro]

There’s a girl up front with chocolate brown hair... she looks like the girl from the 2004 Opportunity landing. I hope that is her witnessing another successful touchdown

[zoobear]

3:50 thank me later
Also at 6:20 there is the touchdown!

[fleafrier]

YES!! JPL kills it once again. Nice work!!!

[chickenofthecave]

Think about how awesome it must look to see this thing land out of nowhere. That must be incredible

[stevenpilling]

Congratulations, JPL. You did it again!

[Reconseal]

Thats 5 straight successful landings from NASA/JPL

[MSean-rwgz]

CBSN reporter: So we got it there, that's nice, but... the Lander won't be coming back?
NASA guy: ummm, no.

Lol

I half expected her to question whether or not the astronauts on board were consulted of this fact.

"Ummm no, we find the volunteer rate for the missions to Mars drops precipitously if we try and volunteer too much information up front. So will we will let them hang out there were a couple of days, and then gently break it to them that sorry, the "Go back to Earth" button on the dashboard doesn't actually do anything."

[ashleytaylor]

Why don't we have a camera on the moon showing the earth spinning? We can send a rover to Mars but we can't put a camera on the moon? Fake