World Focus: Why a human mission to Mars?

World Focus: Why a human mission to Mars?

Temple Beth El in Williamsburg was recently once again a forum for a Sunday lecture. This time it was Dr. Joel Levine, who spent 41 years as a senior research scientist in the Science Directorate at NASA Langley Research Center and as Mars Scout Program scientist at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C. He also was appointed co-chair of the NASA panel on the Human Exploration of Mars-Science Analysis Group. Upon his NASA retirement in 2011, Levi…

Going to Mars could be much more complicated than expected, questioning the very interest of a manned mission.