NASA ambassador, La Pine fifth-grader excited by successful touchdown
SUNRIVER, Ore. (KTVZ) NASA has moved one step closer to possibly discovering life on other planets, and Central Oregonians were cheering Thursday s successful landing of the Mars rover Perseverance with the rest of the country.
Over 1 million people tuned into NASA’s live stream, waiting for the words “touchdown confirmed” and to see the eruption of cheers from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory s control room, and the first new images from the red planet.
Just after 1 p.m., more than 127 million miles away, NASA’s newest rover officially touched down after a voyage of nearly seven months.