124 - The Future of the Mars Program (feat. Scott Hubbard)
Scott Hubbard, the Mars Czar himself, joins Jake to talk about NASA's Mars Program, how it came to be, and what the Mars Sample Return program means for its future.
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Show Notes
For two decades, the modern Mars program has been sending spacecraft almost every launch window to Mars, and we have Scott Hubbard to thank for much of that. As the first director of the Mars Program, he instituted much of the paradigm we have today. But with Mars Sample Return on the horizon, Scott joins Jake to talk about how things are changing and what it means for the future.
We talk Mars Sample Return and the Mars Program
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