![]() Portions of the heat shield may reach nearly 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit as it protects the lander from the heating environment. InSight Mission Controller: InSight should now be experiencing the peak heating rate. I wanted to actually have scenes of kittens put up on their monitors to keep everybody calm, but that was voted down. So whatever happened on Mars had already happened. One-way light-time at that point was eight minutes. ![]() Because the reality is, our planned time for entry, descent, and landing was a little over six minutes. ![]() Mission control is a complete misnomer in that particular situation. And it was a little bit nerve-wracking because they're all looking at me for what's going on, and I don't know any better than what the call is in the room at any given time. All the management from both JPL and NASA were sitting back there with me. Being the project manager, I was sitting in the back. Tom Hoffman: On landing day for InSight, I was in the Mission Control Center here at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. ![]() Tom Hoffman is the project manager for the mission. Narrator: On November 26, 2018, the Insight mission arrived at Mars after a 6-month journey of over 300 million miles. InSight Mission Controller: Atmospheric entry on my mark: three, two, one, mark.
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