February 23, 2021 HUMANITY rejoiced at NASA’s (National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s) announcement that the Mars Perseverance Rover had a successful touchdown on the Red Planet.
Perseverance is NASA’s most advanced rover and a car-sized robotic geologist and astrobiologist that is set to further propel advancements in the study of life outside of Planet Earth.
Among the set of hands that helped drive the program to success is Fil-Am engineer Gregorio Villar III, who played a part in NASA’s Mars Exploration Program as the Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) Systems Engineer for the Mars 2020 Mission.
Villar spent seven and a half years building and testing a system that would land a rover the size of a car on Mars.