Good Night Oppy Scriptbook

ILM SFX ANIMATION: Steep up-angle: The airbag crashes into our camera.

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: Engineer: “We don’t see a signal at the moment. We saw an intermittent signal that indicated we were bouncing, however – however we currently do not have signal from the spacecraft. Please stand by.” ROB MANNING: Spirit vanishes. The signal goes away. Completely gone. In other words, she may have crashed.

KOBIE BOYKINS: Silence.

Everybody waiting for a signal. Everybody waiting for something.

TOUCHDOWN!

HAPPIEST ROOM ON PLANET EARTH

ROB MANNING: I was thinking that we did all of this in vain, that maybe we lost this mission.

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: Engineer 2: “We see it, we see it!”

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: Engineer 3: “What do we see?”

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: Engineer 2: “We see it!”

PRODUCTION ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE: “We’re on Mars everybody!”

ROB MANNING: You see us jumping up and down, we’re not jumping for joy, we’re jumping for relief. Both rovers landed safely on the surface of Mars.

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