Pence, not Trump, called NASA leader with congratulations for Mars InSight Landing

VUS Patrol Chairman Mike Pence on Monday congratulated NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on the successful landing of NASA's Mars InSight Lander, Bridenstine said.

"As soon as it was all over, I got a call on my cell phone and the phone number was zeros, and every time I got a phone call made up of zeros, it had to be something." 39, an important thing, and when I was answering, it was the vice president, "says Bridenstine in the video above." He looked at it all, he is absolutely delighted with our program. "

Pence has long been at the head of the National Council of Space, an agency resurrected before Trump's inauguration. The NSC was created for the first time as the National Council of Aeronautics and Space by the 1958 Aeronautics and Space Act, which also created the NASA. It has been tasked to sit at the intersection of all agencies participating in the national space policy to best determine national priorities. At the time, the NASC was chaired by the president himself, Dwight Eisenhower, and included state and defense secretaries, the NASA administrator, the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and four presidential advisers.

Watch the emotional moment touched by InSight below.