BE BACK WITH A LOOK AT DRIVE
TIMES COMING UP.
OR TO.
YOU.
OWEN: ALL RIGHT.
6:01.
NASA’S MISSION TO MARS IS MINUTE
IS A WAY FROM LIFTOFF.
49 MINUTES.
WE’LL LOOK LIVE AT AS?  TV NOW.
PERSEVERANCE, THROWER SITTING
ATO TOP THE ATLAS FIVE ROCKET
THERE IN PLO DAR.
LISA: IT OPENS AT 6:50.
CHANNEL2 IS LIVE IN JOHNSON’S
SPACE CENTER WITH MORE ON
TODAY’S HISTORIC LAUNCH.
REPORTER: WELL, LISA, NASA IS
GETTING READY TO SEND THE NINTH
ROW GOT THE RED PLAN THE AND YOU
CAN SEE WE ARE PLANNING TO WATCH
THAT WALK WHEN IT THAT PENS ON
THE BIG SCREEN THERE BUT NASA
WANTS TO GET A BETTER IF IDEA OF
THE LIFE ON THAT PLANET AND
BRING BACK ROCK AND METEORITES
LIKE THIS ONE THAT YOU ARE
LOOKING AT THERE AND CLOSER THAN
EVER, LESS THAN AN HOR A WAY
FROM THE ROVER’S LAUNCH.
REPORTER: AS?  HOPES TO LARN
MORE ABOUT ANCIENT LIFE ON THE
RED PLAN MET NET WHERE ENGINEERS
ARESY SIP ENDING THIS ROCKET, A
DRONE, EVEN MICRODOPE MARS.
>> WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SEE
ANOTHER SPACECRAFT TO SEE OUR
SPACECRAFT LAND ON ANOTHER
PLANET AND WE HAVE GOT
COMMERCIAL RUGGEDIZED CAMERAS WE
DISTRIBUTED ALL EVER TO THE
SPACECRAFT AND THEY WILL GET
HIGH DEFINITION VIDEO THAT WILL
BRING BACK AFTER WE LAND ON THE
SURFACE.
REPORTER: THE MAR’S ROVER WILL
LEAVE THE CAN KED KENNEDY SPACE
HE CENTER AT 6:50:00 A.M.
HOUSTON HIM AND TAKE SIX AND A
HALF NONES TO REACH MARS THE
LANDING WILL BE INTENSE CALLING
IT SEVEN MINUTES OF TERROR ONCE
ON THE RED PLANET THE AIRCRAFT
WILL SPEND SEVERAL YEARS
EXPLORING THE PLANET AND CRATER
FOR ANY SIGNS OF PAST LIFE.
A MICROPHONE WILL ALLOW US TO
HEAR WHAT IT LIKE ON MARINERS
FIRST TIME A DRONE WILL FLY
50 FEET OFF THE GROUND TO SURVEY
THE PLANET NASA PLANS TO COLLECT
SOIL AND ROCK SAMPLES TO BRING
BACK TO EARTH.
WE’RE DOING TRANSFORMATIVE
SCIENCE FOR THE FIRST TIME LOOK
FOR SIGNS OF LIFE ON ANOTHER
PLANET AND AS FOR THE FIRST TIME
WE WILL COLLECT SAMPLES THAT ARE
PART OF THE FIRST SAMPLE RETURN
FROM ANOTHER PLANET.
REPORTER: SPACE SAYS THIS
MISSION COULD LAY THE GROUND
WORK FOR EVENTUAL HUMAN
EXPLORATION OF MARS.
IF YOU ARE WONDERING HOW IT GOT
ITS NAME PERSEVERANCE PLANNING
THIS LAUNCH DURING THE MIDDLE OF
A PAN DEG HAS NOT BEEN HE EASY
AND ABOUT TO SEE AT 6:50 NASA
DEFINITELY PERSEVERED.
REPORTING LIVE FROM SPACE HOUSE
