Then at 4:51, he vaults off the edge of a cliff and nails the landing.
The more stirring sight, though, came on the morning after the landing, at J.
But a couple of months before the landing, he decided to take a closer look.
If you missed the landing late Sunday night, the video above recaptures the anticipation pretty nicely.
This image of the crater wall is north of the landing site, or behind the rover.
The landing approach was, by far, the most difficult and challenging part of the flight.
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The landing beaches will be as impregnable as any such beaches can be made.
Patrick Sandeman was killed approaching the landing zone at Sibson Aerodrome, near Peterborough, last September.
An army helicopter whisked the pair to the Egyptian capital eight hours after the landing.
The aircraft came down just 150 yards from the landing strip at the McRae family's home.
The landing marked the end of the first private flight ever to the International Space Station.
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The first stage is the structural assembly where the sections are fitted, including the landing gear.
She knew his fuel was virtually exhausted and there may be no second chance on the landing.
And cats are jealous of the reflexes she showed in saving the landing of her triple salchow.
They pinpointed the landing sites for the Apollo astronauts - high-resolution pictures of the surface of Mars.
He pauses and sidetracks and makes you hold your breath, but sometimes, he really sticks the landing.
"There are times when you may leave the landing site when the lake is still, " explains Kabonge.
It's got all the landing facilities they need and that wouldn't be a problem, I shouldn't think.
The front skis of the machine clipped the landing hill and Moore shot forward over the handlebars.
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It's hoped the birthday will be auspicious for the landing, NASA's John Grunsfeld said in a news conference.
The crew couldn't make contact with the landing strip at Goma on what was then the Rwanda-Zaire border.
For the sampling team, this is the equivalent of the landing team going crazy after the successful touchdown.
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The landing sites, when seen from orbit, were so rough that the two spacecraft spent weeks scanning for alternatives.
Light from the landing outside, showed his father was sitting on the bed and his step-mother lying beside him.
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It was not a military operation, but without the landing of American troops, it probably would not have succeeded.
At 115 knots I started a base turn and dropped the landing flaps.
One key contribution would be the landing system that places the rover on the surface of the Red Planet.
The landing strip is just a tiny break in the rain forest's canopy.
Later today, scientists are expected to complete a full color panorama of the landing site of the Mars Phoenix mission.
It involved lowering the rover to the ground on cables while the landing shell was still attached to its parachute.
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