Doug McCuistion
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Doug McCuistion
Doug McCuistion was the Director of NASA's Mars Exploration Program. He is now the Chief Operating Officer of X-Energy, LLC, a nuclear energy company introducing High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactors to the US market located in Greenebelt, MD...
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Spirit has climbed to the hilltop and looked over the other side, but NASA did not do this just to say we can do it. The Mars rovers are addressing fundamental questions about Martian history and planetary environments." ()
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Mars doesn't treat you very well, for the most part. So this is a very challenging thing to do." ()
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After a six-month cruise and 300 million mile (480 million km) journey we're finally there. But the first thing we have to do is get into orbit. It's not an easy task.
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This mission will greatly expand our scientific understanding of Mars, pave the way for our next robotic missions later in this decade and help us prepare for sending humans to Mars." ()