S2 Ep1: Making Mars A Future Home? with NASA Scientist, Dr. Michael Hecht

About this episode

The episode discusses the potential for making Mars a future home for humanity through innovations like oxygen generation.

What does it really take to make Mars a future home for humanity? In this Not Impossible Podcast episode, host and Not Impossible Labs founder Mick Ebeling sits down with Dr. Michael Hecht, NASA's principal investigator for MOXIE - Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization." Together, they explore how MOXIE made history by generating oxygen on Mars, what that means for the future of space travel, and how innovation born from impossibility can change the world – and beyond. This episode kicks off season 2 of the Not Impossible Podcast, our new chapter of mind blowing conversations with people who use breakthrough technology to make the impossible not impossible. Subscribe for more episodes with world-changing thinkers, inventors, and doers.

People in this episode

Host: Mick Ebeling

Guest: Dr Michael Hecht

Topics covered

• Mars
• space travel
• oxygen generation
• innovation
• technology

Keywords

• MOXIE
• NASA
• future home
• humanity
• space exploration

Mentioned in this episode

Products: MOXIE

Books & works: Making Mars A Future Home

Places: Mars

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