Host Dave Schlom visits with grant winners from a NASA program designed to boost and accelerate science and engineering programs with potential space applications at Minority Serving Institutions (MSI).
Guests include NASA program director Tom Cwik who provides an overview, and some of the winners of this year's competition from Fayetteville State University in North Carolina: Dr. Sambit Bhattacharya and two of his students, Khali Crawford and Grace Vincent.
Then, Dave is joined by JPL's Doug Ellison to talk about the very appropriately named Mars Pathfinder Mission 25 years ago. Pathfinder, now known as Carl Sagan Memorial Station on Mars, had the very first Mars rover -- Sojourner. Aside from being featured in the movie The Martian, Pathfinder was one of the very first missions that utilized the relatively new experience of sharing images and information on the internet -- setting the stage for everyone that enjoys following missions virtually now.
