Mars Exploration
Doug McCuiston, former Director, Mars Exploration Program, NASA
On August 6th 2012, Curiosity, the NASA Mars Rover made a successful landing in Gale Crater on Mars. This marked the culmination of many years of preparation and a journey of more than 350 million miles.
In his PI Keynote, Doug McCuiston, the former Director of the program, shares his experiences of a project that required huge ingenuity, continual design innovation and the management of an entirely unique set of challenges encountered when trying to land a car sized robotic rover on a planet with conditions not replicable on Earth.