Brian Muirhead: Exploring other worlds

January 8, 2007

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As the project manager for Mars Pathfinder, Brian Muirhead set the tone for a new era of faster, better, cheaper missions at NASA. This highly ambitious project successfully landed the Sojourner rover on Mars, and paved the way for a family of rovers that are yielding vital new scientific findings. The 1998 Design News Engineer of the Year, Brian is now the chief engineer of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He shares his views on space technology with Contributing Editor Larry Maloney.

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