Mimi Ong couldn't fall asleep.

I probably tried to go to bed.

I can't remember what time I went to bed.

It might have been, you know, close to nine.

And for all Mimi cared, the dark space between her and her bedroom clock might as well have been just as far as where her mind was actually worrying, 140 million miles away.

I have to share with you.

I don't know that I've shared publicly like this.

I actually got quite emotional the night before when I actually got to prepare for the portion of if it didn't land properly.

It was a tiny vehicle, less than four pounds, and the where was on Mars.

This is the first time like it left our planet right?

So yeah, definitely it was a first of a kind mission. There's no manual pre-written.

My name is Mimi Ong. I'm the former project manager for

Engineer Mars helicopter.

Time to manager for engineering Mars helicopter. Time ticked by slowly.

I got quite emotional because I ended up walking through

all our journey and what each success was.

When we did our first proof of concept flight to when we really achieved the mass,

and then we were put on to the rover, which was like incredible, right?

Like our dream come true true like we were going

to Mars right and then now we're at Mars and doing that and how proud we were.

But the team still didn't know if the little copter could actually fly on Mars.

This is on point.

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