Join a panel of NASA scientists and engineers who will share the state of space technology today and what it will take to land missions on another planet and make it back alive. From new robots designed to beat extreme challenges of living on the Moon or Mars, to technologies for landing spacecraft on distant worlds, come hear from the experts on how close (and far) we are to exploring deeper into the cosmos. Panelists: Jeremy Vander Kam, thermal protection systems for the Mars Sample Return Earth entry vehicle and NASA's Orion spacecraft Christine Gregg, Automated Reconfigurable Mission Adaptive Digital Assembly Systems, or ARMADAS, project Jonathan Morgan, aerospace engineer Nick Cramer, Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy
