By Lou Farrell, Senior Writer, Red Planet Bound In space exploration, the tiniest mistakes can become mission-ending moments. However, those high-stakes failures represent some of the most valuable data points for space agencies. Every anomaly review, redesign and retest strengthens future missions, turning hard lessons into better hardware and smarter processes. In that sense, progress in the final frontier is a cycle of setbacks, scrutiny and steady space agency improvements rather than a straight line. Learning from the Tragedy of… READ MORE >
Topic Area: History
The Mars Society is pleased to announce that Dr. David Catling, Professor in the Earth & Space Sciences Department and the Astrobiology Program at the University of Washington (Seattle), will be a plenary speaker at the 27th Annual International Mars Society Convention this August. Dr. Catling’s presentation, “Live Fast, Die Young, and Leave a Red Corpse: The Environmental Evolution of Mars,” will explore the changes in Mars’ environment over its geological history and discuss the potential for life on the… READ MORE >