The media has, in my estimation, given the Rover's landing on Mars more coverage and.....
....interest than landings in the past. And I think that people are more interested than usual because we need some kind of success story, something positive to help us deal with our generally lousy situation due to the pandemic. Network news seems to have celebrated the Mars landing even more than science geeks like me have come to hope for.
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When you consider how everything has to go 100% right, how hard these teams worked on the project and the huge anticipation for success, it was an exhilarating, emotional moment. Particularly after the last 4-5 years when a lot of people believed the US had lost it's ability to succeed at anything, let alone dream big.
It was a moment that took me straight back to childhood when every kid wanted to be an astronaut, when many of us thought we'd be colonizing Mars by this time.
Better late than never.
I've now added an item to my bucket list: living long enough to see the first human step onto the planet Mars. What a day that will be! Then I can croak. 
