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Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center.

Episode 174, Sticking the Landing on Mars.

I'm Pat Ryan.

On this podcast we talk with scientists, engineers, astronauts, all kinds of

experts about their part in America's space exploration program and today we

take the next step in our Mars monthly series.

We've talked about how to get a spaceship full of human astronauts to Mars,

what they'd have to pack, how we would feed them along the way,

and when they got to their destination.

Well today we talk with two members of the Mars Architecture team

about the considerations for completing a successful landing of a spaceship on Mars. The subject is EDL, which stands for

entry, descent, and landing, not at a decision list. We have two guests. Doug Trent from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville,

Alabama is the Mars Architecture team's Entry Descent and Landing lead. Doug has been working on

the Artemis Human Landing System program,

HLS, for three years, so he's tied into how what we're learning from

Artemis at the Moon is feeding into the development of the systems to use on Mars.

Our second guest is Alicia Dwyer Sienciolo from the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.

She is the Deorbit, Descent, and Landing Mission Segment Lead for the HLS, and a member of the

EDL team for NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate.

Alicia has been embedded with the Mars Architecture team for years

and has served on several Science Mission Directorate

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