Archive: Engineering the Tools of Scientific Discovery, Part 5 of 6

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In part five of the six part NAE Seattle Grand Challenges Summer series, Mike Griffin, Professor and Director of Center for System Studies, University of Alabama Huntsville, talks about unique examples of large system engineering projects, addressing both succeses and failures. Edward F. Crawley, Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, shares why human space flight remains important and discusses the current goal of landing on Mars and potential permanent human presence. Bonnie Dunbar, President and CEO of the Museum of Flight contines the space exploration theme by addresssing the need to engineer tools that will contribute to continued universe exploration with both robotic and human explorers. The episode concludes with all speakers participating in a question and answer session.
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