Making Contact: Humanity’s Enduring Fascination with Mars
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Overview
Journalist, author and documentary producer Rod Pyle examines humanity’s enduring fascination with Mars, tracing early missions, future exploration plans and the technological challenges that stand between Earth and meaningful contact with the Red Planet. In this interview based on his book “Mars: Making Contact,” co-written by Dr. Jim Green, Director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA, Pyle takes us on an exciting journey from the earliest telescopic viewings, through NASA’s first flybys in the 1960s, to the landers in the 1970s, and the increasingly sophisticated rovers and orbiters of today.