NASA Engineer On Mars Travel

The former head of The Planetary Society says technology will replace exploration by humans.

Dec 7, 2015

Louis Friedman, an aerospace engineer and author of "Human Spaceflight: From Mars to the Stars," believes that humans may never travel past Mars. The former head of The Planetary Society says technology will replace exploring humans.

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