"JPL"
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory
[Typing] "CALIFORNIA
INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY"
[William Pickering] The
long range purpose
of unmanned exploration
of the planets
is the development
of technology
which will lead to eventual
manned exploration.
[rocket blast]
[Flight Director]
Power...
[Male voice]
Go.
[Flight Director]
Systems...
[Female voice]
Go.
[Flight Director]
Propulsion...
[Female voice]
Go.
[Flight Director]
Avionics...
[Male voice]
Go.
[Flight Director]
Flight software...
[Male voice]
Go.
[Pickering] Scientifically,
our objective is
to assistant answering
two basic questions:
What if any lifeforms
exist on the planets?
And, how has the solar
system been formed?
[Flight Director]
Telecom...
[Male voice]
Go.
[Flight Director]
Fault protection...
[Female voice]
Go.
[Flight Director]
Uplink...
[Male voice]
Go.
[Flight Director]
Phase lead...
[Female voice]
Go.
[Female voice]
Go.
[Male voice]
Go.
[Female voice]
Go.
[Male voice]
Go.
[Female voice]
Go.
[Female voice]
Go.
[Male voice]
Go!
[rockets firing]
[Operations Lead]
Touchdown confirmed.
We're safe on Mars!
[cheering] 
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute
of Technology
