Chris Longo Nov 12, 2018
National Geographic returns to Mars with a new angle for season two.
When Stephen Petranek was writing his book How We’ll Live On Mars, the then Administrator of Nasa and former astronaut Charles Bolden pulled Petranek aside to show him something on Nasa’s website. “It says right here on the website, in big bold letters, Nasa has no plans to send humans to Mars,” Bolden told Petranek, who’s had a long journalistic career covering emerging science and technology. Within the next year, Nasa named a director for a manned mission to Mars. We’ll stop short of giving Petranek too much credit, but it’s clear that in the years since he started writing the book, there’s been a palpable sense of excitement for pushing space exploration further than it’s ever gone before.
As the source material for National Geographic’s event series Mars,...
National Geographic returns to Mars with a new angle for season two.
When Stephen Petranek was writing his book How We’ll Live On Mars, the then Administrator of Nasa and former astronaut Charles Bolden pulled Petranek aside to show him something on Nasa’s website. “It says right here on the website, in big bold letters, Nasa has no plans to send humans to Mars,” Bolden told Petranek, who’s had a long journalistic career covering emerging science and technology. Within the next year, Nasa named a director for a manned mission to Mars. We’ll stop short of giving Petranek too much credit, but it’s clear that in the years since he started writing the book, there’s been a palpable sense of excitement for pushing space exploration further than it’s ever gone before.
As the source material for National Geographic’s event series Mars,...
- 11/12/2018
- Den of Geek
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