NASA InSight landing: Watch as the spacecraft successfully lands on Mars

The NASA Mars InSight lander is scheduled to touch down on Mars today around 3 p.m. ET. The robotic lander launched over six months ago from Vandenberg Air Force base in California.

InSight is expected to enter the Mars atmosphere and begin its decent to the Martian surface at approximately 2:47 p.m. ET. Four minutes later, it will deploy a parachute to slow itself. Once slowed, it will jettison its heat shield and then its landing legs will unfold and lock into place.

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[jasonsiemsen]

All i saw were people in a control room.

[ChasingLions_]

Am I the only one who noticed the girl at 48:16? Beauty and brains?

[BradCaldwellAuburn]

What the actual? I wanted to see a Mars landing, not people staring at computers!

[TommasoCoerini]

I can't understand why Mars isn't flat like earth is....that's so strange!

[wwekidder]

Why are they showing the control room instead of the entire Landing and approach it makes no sense what's the point

[KarimJovian]

Happiness it amazing i love seeing people happy

[jace_Henderson]

People ask “why are they so excited like they never landed a spacecraft on another planet before”, how about you try and do all the calculations needed to time and set everything just right. Also, most things we try to send into space malfunction and fail. So many dats, even weeks or months of labor and effort get put into making everything just right and the relief of success will always cause for a celebration. Clearly y’all have no idea how tedious and arduous something like this is to do, the moon is one thing, Mars is another level. Billions of dollars are invested and success means you didn’t waste all that money thus even more reason to celebrate.

[viinikellari]

"Watch as the spacecraft succesfully lands on Mars" ... umm... did you mean: "Watch as the NASA team applauds and hugs each other"? Why couldn't they show the live footage of the landing?

[rodramsell]

Can't wait to see the data. Hope the networks add a Mars segment to the daily weather report.

[paulburrows]

No sound just a bunch of people eating peanuts, what a joke this is!

[bblancer]

Pathetic, small-minded people are calling it fake because they can't accept the fact that people so much smarter than they are are doing things they can't even begin to dream of.

[lazyjesus]

Why do they cut away to superimposed CGI at 25:57, what’s the point of that?

[alexgr]

Congratulations on the successful touchdown.
Another victory for science, reason and knowledge.

[YOONGOON_FPV]

but why no landing live cam? I thought you guys were trying to expose that show

[micheleniedermeyer]

All at Nasa you all can be so proud working together to see this great achievement occur...Thank you for share it on my computer al the way to South Jordan, Utah!...I'm 72 years old I hope I live long enough to see humans colonize on Mars...

[HijrahYuk_FK]

What joke it is?
1 hours and we just hear touchdown complete..
The best fake dramaa

[arupm]

Useless. Why don't you show us what actually happening on Mars?

[BreakdaHouseDwnBootz]

We just witnessed people witness history

[Amaaaaan]

I mean seriously you want people to watch 1 hour and 14 minutes of video? Lol

[pfhanley]

I don't understand any of this....will that stop me from commenting with authority on the internet?