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[Interview] How A Realistic Mars Mission Will Play Out

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How will a human Mars mission play out? Where exactly should it go? What unexpected challenges will we face? We're discussing all these aspects with Rick Davis. He is the Assistant Director for Science and Exploration, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.

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👉 NASA Blog Article on choosing the landing site on Mars:
https://blogs.nasa.gov/redplanetdispatch/2022/12/13/criteria-for-landing-site-selection/

  • 00:00:00 Intro
  • 00:01:29 Training for Mars on Earth
  • 00:07:11 Choosing a landing site
  • 00:20:37 Unexpected challenges of Mars
  • 00:52:38 Planetary protection
  • 00:56:51 Exploring lava tubes
  • 00:59:49 What's next?
  • 01:09:24 Outro

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