On today's Your Call, in light of NASA’s historic landing of the $2.5 billion “Curiosity” rover on Mars, we’ll talk about space. A planning group is taking a look at how the agency will continue exploring Mars beyond the missions operating today. Who decides where we explore? What space missions are we NOT hearing about? Join us at 10am PST or post a comment here. What role do you think NASA should play in the future? It’s Your Call with Holly Kernan, and you.
Guests:
Dr. Fuk Li, director for the Mars Exploration Directorate at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Ken Croswell, astronomer and author of 8 books about space, including The Lives of Stars
Janet Vertesi, sociologist of science and technology at Princeton University
Salvatore Babones, associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC and a regular contributor at Truthout.org
Resources:
NYTimes: Life on Mars? Funds to Find Answer Fade
Truth-Out: Virgin Galactic's Space Tourism Venture for the 1% Will Warm the Globe for the Rest of Us
Slate: How Space-Age Nostalgia Hobbles Our Future
KALW: Author Mary Roach on why we should care about landing on Mars
PBS: Lost in space? Cuts to NASA threaten innovation, diplomacy
Planetary: NASA Budget Pushes Science to the Brink
MNN: The pros and cons of commercializing space travel
Space Future: Lunar Ethics and Space Commercialization
NY Times: A One-Way Ticket to Mars