NASA's Curiosity rover was built to answer one question: did Mars ever support life? Getting a one-ton vehicle onto the surface intact meant inventing a landing method nobody had tried before, a hovering rocket-powered crane that lowers the rover on cables during the final seconds of descent. This film goes inside the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to follow the engineers who spent years designing and testing that system, known internally as the seven minutes of terror, since radio delay meant no one on Earth could intervene once the spacecraft hit the Martian atmosphere. Interviews with mission engineers cover the heat shield, the parachute deploying at supersonic speed, and the guided entry system that had to work perfectly on the first attempt. Archival mission-control footage captures the actual landing night, when controllers waited out the blackout in radio contact before confirmation arrived. The film lays out just how much could have gone wrong on a planet that has destroyed most of the spacecraft sent to it, and how a billion-dollar mission came down to a few unproven minutes.