NASA Science Live: Moon to Mars Ice and Prospecting Challenge

NASA Sci­ence Live: Moon to Mars Ice and Prospect­ing Challenge



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NASA Sci­ence Live is back and we’re LIVE from the Moon to Mars Ice & Prospect­ing Chal­lenge. Ten teams from across the coun­try have been tasked with one goal: to extract ice beneath a sim­u­lat­ed lunar or Mar­t­ian sur­face. As we look for­ward to NASA’s Artemis pro­gram to the Moon and even one-day crewed mis­sions to Mars, ideas from chal­lenges like this will be essen­tial in cre­at­ing tech­nol­o­gy to access resources like water for humans to sur­vive on oth­er worlds. Join us on Sept 24th at 3:00 p.m. to hear from NASA experts and the teams. 

Meet the experts
Ale­jan­dro Pen­sa­do is an Aero­space Engi­neer at NASA Lan­g­ley Research Cen­ter. In 2018, Ale­jan­dro joined the Space Mis­sion Analy­sis Branch at NASA Lan­g­ley, work­ing on in-situ resource uti­liza­tion, propul­sion, and Moon and Mars mis­sion archi­tec­tures. He says he loves the vari­ety of his work and enjoys col­lab­o­rat­ing with cre­ative and tal­ent­ed peo­ple which makes his job more fun. In his spare time, he loves pho­tog­ra­phy, cook­ing, and traveling. 

Shel­ley Spears is the Nation­al Insti­tute of Aero­space Direc­tor of Edu­ca­tion and Out­reach. As one of the orga­niz­ers of the com­pe­ti­tion, Shel­ley says she loves the mag­ni­tude of impact her work has on soci­ety and its con­tri­bu­tion to Amer­i­can com­pet­i­tive­ness. In her spare time she loves boat­ing, golf­ing, bird hunt­ing with her dogs, trav­el­ing, stay­ing fit, as well as cook­ing and enter­tain­ing with fam­i­ly and friends.

Christo­pher Jones is a Senior Aero­space Engi­neer at NASA Lan­g­ley Research Cen­ter. Ever since he was a young boy, Christo­pher always dreamt of work­ing for NASA. Soon his oppor­tu­ni­ty came as he joined the Space Mis­sion Analy­sis Branch at NASA Lan­g­ley. He says he loves work­ing on the diverse mix of projects that all sup­port improv­ing life on Earth through space. Out­side of work, he spends his time play­ing rac­quet­ball, cook­ing, play­ing board games, and writing.



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