Can We Make It to Mars?
Season 5 Episode 1 | 52m 57sVideo has Closed Captions
See new space suits, foods, plasma rockets, and meet a Mars rover driver.
See new space suits, foods, and rockets that may support future Mars-bound astronauts, and meet a Mars rover driver.
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Can We Make It to Mars?
Season 5 Episode 1 | 52m 57sVideo has Closed Captions
See new space suits, foods, and rockets that may support future Mars-bound astronauts, and meet a Mars rover driver.
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Clip: S5 Ep1 | 10m 45s | Today's suits are bulky. MIT's Dava Newman is out to change that with a sleek new design. (10m 45s)
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Clip: S5 Ep1 | 6m 38s | A new rocket might be able to zip us to Mars and back in under three months. (6m 38s)
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Clip: S5 Ep1 | 9m 58s | A daredevil engineer born in India now drives the Mars rovers. (9m 58s)
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Clip: S5 Ep1 | 13m 19s | Can we protect Mars-bound astronauts from deadly meteoroids, radiation, and other hazards? (13m 19s)
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Clip: S5 Ep1 | 6m 51s | How do you keep food fresh on a three-year round-trip to Mars? (6m 51s)
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