NPC Newsmaker: Becoming Martians

Photo Credit: Thomas D. Jones, PhD, Veteran NASA Astronaut spoke at a Headliners Newsmaker Tuesday morning discussing the status of a future mission to Mars. Noel St. John

Photo Credit: Jones explained how traveling in the weightlessness of space is an insult to the body requiring two hours of exercise per day for astronauts aboard the International Space Station. He further explained that no one knows how the human body will react to the Martian gravity which is one third of what we experience on Earth. Also pictured is James Garvin. Noel St. John

Photo Credit: "Imagine Greenland scale ice sheets below the surface layer of dust on Mars." said James Garvin, PhD, Chief Scientist, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Garvin went on to explain how future missions would use drill equipped rovers to explore meters below the dust layer." Noel St. John

Photo Credit: "Mars has never let me down in any mission we’ve flown so get ready, she’s rocking" Garvin said as he ended his remarks. The panel also featured (l-r) Thomas D. Jones, PhD, Veteran NASA Astronaut Noel St. John

Photo Credit: Richard Davis, Asst. Director for Science and Exploration in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Noel St. John

Photo Credit: Janet Ivey, creator of “Janet’s Planet” and National Space Society Board Member and David Hodes of the Headliners Committee and moderator of the event." Noel St. John

Photo Credit: "The hardest part about Mars is a belief that it is not possible." Richard Davis, Asst. Director for Science and Exploration in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA. Noel St. John