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Welcome to the Scientific American Podcast Science Talk posted on August 6th, 2012. I'm Steve Murski. At 1039 p.m. Pacific

time last night, August 5th, the Curiosity rover landed on Mars. It successfully navigated the

so-called seven minutes of terror of the descent and safely delivered the vehicle and its

Mars Science Laboratory mission to the surface.

At about 11.20 p.m., some of the principal players involved in the mission held a press conference

at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This is an edited presentation of that press briefing.

The first voice you hear is Charles Alachi, director of the JPL.

Well, tonight was a great drama that was played.

I felt like an adventure movie, but in reality I kept telling myself this is real.

This is real what's happening and what a fantastic demonstration of what our nation and our agency, you know, can do.

I could only think of the words of Teddy Roosevelt as I was sitting there.

It is far better to their mighty things, even though we might fail, than to stay in the

twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

And the team brought us victory, you know, today.

I can also only think about the Olympians.

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