- It's time to dig up something rad
you may have missed in your social media feed.
This is "What I'm Liking."
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All right.
So last month we got to meet some
of the amazing women who helped land
the Perseverance Rover on Mars.
Well, now I want to tell you
about another member of that historic team.
His daughter watched him in awe her entire life.
He's an immigrant who moved from Argentina
to the States with dreams of working at NASA.
Not only did he fulfill that vision,
he surpassed it, helping to land his fifth Mars Rover
all from his daughter's childhood bedroom,
which is amazing.
When she saw his reaction to the Rover touching down,
she had to share it with the world.
Take a look.
- Touchdown. We got touchdown. (screams and laughs)
(hands slap desk)
- [Wife] Don't break the table. (chuckles)
- Unbelievable.
- I mean, if that doesn't bring tears to your eyes,
you have no soul.
That's so sweet.
Let's get Maddie and her Daddy in here.
What's up, you two?
- Hi Kelly.
- How you doin'?
- Hello! Well, thank you so much
first of all, for being on this show and Maddie,
what was it like seeing your dad help land the Rover
from your old bedroom?
- I mean, it was really emotional
and really, really cool to see overall obviously,
like I look at that room and that's where I used
to play the Sims with my sister,
juggle a soccer ball.
And to now see that my dad is watching this footage
and following along with the telemetry data,
looking at this Rover landing and getting so excited.
Space is a big and kind of scary, unknown thing.
So the fact that all of these people
including my dad have dedicated so much of their lives
to helping the world just understand it
even a little bit better is just super, super inspiring.
And I just really wanted to share that with the world.
- Oh my God.
I mean, I'm a parent I'm like literally almost crying.
Just, I can't imagine, Miguel,
my kid talking about me
the way she's talking about you.
She's so proud and inspired.
That's the coolest thing.
Like the coolest gift that a kid can give you.
And we can see that you're really excited.
I mean, it is literally like you alone won the Super Bowl.
It was like the one-man team.
It was, and it's incredible,
what you've done in your career and in that moment.
Do you usually get that excited?
Like at the other four that you helped land,
did you get that kind of excited?
'Cause I wanna have a drink with you, Miguel.
Just if you get that kind
of excited about things. (giggles)
- Well, I mean, I have to admit,
that I surprised myself how excited I got on this one.
This was a very different landing
than the previous ones
because the previous ones I was member of the team.
So I was in the control room
back in those days when we landed the previous four.
And the fact that I was
at home and my wife was right next to me,
I think that that opened up more of my emotions,
and that's what the explosion was, I guess, by that.
And also there was a lot going into this, right?
I mean, most of the whole country
was going through a difficult time.
And this is based on the design
that I worked really hard on the previous one.
But to be honest, I don't, I surprise myself, too.
- I think you're right,
that this all happening
in such a hard,
the past year has just been so hard for everyone.
Everybody needed that kind of win.
And especially that kind of excitement,
just for everything to kind of feel like
it's going wrong a lot of times.
For something amazing
that you've worked on for years
to really come to fruition in the best of ways.
I can't even imagine that kind of proud
you must feel inside, that amount of just being
purely proud of yourself and your whole team.
Thank you so much, Miguel, for all that you do
for all of us and all the advances
that you're making for us as humans.
I'm liking your posts right now.
And that's not all, you two!
This season, we've actually partnered with Pilot G2 pen,
the Go-To Pen at the Kelly Clarkson show.
And they want to recognize great people doing great things.
And that is definitely you, my man.
So they're gonna give you a thousand dollars.
You get $500 each just to go have fun with!
(crowd cheers)
- Thank you very much!
- Thank you so much!
- Thank you guys, you all have a blessed day.