Emmy-winning director Mark Davis turns the camera to California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where scientists shepherd NASA's latest Mars rover, Curiosity, from the drawing board all the way to the Martian surface. Sending a craft on a 354-million-mile journey across the solar system is no piece of cake, and having it hit the brakes going 13,000 miles per hour is no easy feat either.

Emmy-winning director Mark Davis turns the camera to California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where scientists shepherd NASA's latest Mars rover, Curiosity, from the drawing board all the way to the Martian surface. Sending a craft on a 354-million-mile journey across the solar system is no piece of cake, and having it hit the brakes going 13,000 miles per hour is no easy feat either.