Curiosity Rover lands on Mars: NASA geeks go wild [Video]

“Touch down confirmed, we are safe on Mars.” How thrilling was it to hear those words? Admit it, when you were a kid you wanted to space and see what wonders it had to offer. The men and women of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) work hard to fulfill those childhood dreams.

It’s all over the internet, the only thing more popular than Justin Beiber’s hair and Lady Gaga’s latest outfit is the one-ton rover that NASA landed on Mars earlier today. The little curious robot known as the Curiosity Rover was gently let down onto the planet by ropes from a rocket backpack after a 36-week flight to begin its two-year mission.

“The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft that carried Curiosity succeeded in every step of the most complex landing ever attempted on Mars, including the final severing of the bridle cords and flyaway maneuver of the rocket backpack,” says NASA.

So today the now-grown boys and girls of NASA got to have some of their dreams about inter-planetary exploration fulfilled when the Curiosity Rover touched down, and in true geek or people style. Whatever, they went wild. Check out this video of mission control as the team watched the robot land on the Red Planet.