[Interview] How A Realistic Mars Mission Will Play Out

How will a human Mars mission play out? Where exactly should it go? What unexpected challenges will we face? We're discussing all these aspects with Rick Davis. He is the Assistant Director for Science and Exploration, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 🐦 Rick Davis on Twitter: https://twitter.com/redplanetrick 👉 NASA Blog Article on choosing the landing site on Mars: https://blogs.nasa.gov/redplanetdispatch/2022/12/13/criteria-for-landing-site-selection/ 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:29 Training for Mars on Earth 00:07:11 Choosing a landing site 00:20:37 Unexpected challenges of Mars 00:52:38 Planetary protection 00:56:51 Exploring lava tubes 00:59:49 What's next? 01:09:24 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/tujL0xrQ2Os 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)