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Christopher McKay's dreams of a manned Mars mission infiltrate NASA/Ames

Christopher McKay is a man with a passion for things that live. As a research scientist for NASA's Ames Research Center in Sunnyvale he searches for things that live in the most hostile of environments: frozen lakes in Antarctica, the Gobi Desert, even America's deepest cave. And almost everywhere he's looked, he's found algae, fungi or microbes surviving against the odds. He studies these durable organisms because he hopes that one day they will help humanity bring life to Mars. McKay is part of an increasingly influential group of Silicon Valley engineers, scientists and students who are not only helping guide United States policy on Mars exploration, they're influencing the way NASA thinks about a manned Mars mission.   More

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