Last month saw a car-sized robot reaching the end of a 570 million-kilometre journey. Quoted as the most challenging mission ever attempted in the history of planetary exploration, the Mars Curiosity Rover touched down on the surface of the red planet.
Sending pictures to Earth within minutes, tweeting its progress at every step and even beaming back Will.i.am’s Reach for the Stars, the first music broadcast to Earth from another planet, this mission is already bringing Space exploration into the modern age.
Throughout all of these events I couldn’t help casting my mind back to a workshop delivered by Anu Ojha, director of the National Space Academy (UK) and one of his opening lines: “The astronauts that will take humanity to Mars are currently sat in our classrooms.”
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