Remember when the Perseverance Mars Rover first landed on Mars? Hear what the guys in the trenches were saying just before it touched down.

Please join this special edition of All Things Aviation & Aerospace featuring a roundtable conversation about the NASA JPL Perseverance Mars Rover landing and mission and the plethora of STEM career disciplines that make up the team of engineers, scientists, and variety of other specialities.

My guests include Eric Aguilar, Senior Engineering Manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and currently the Assistant Delivery Manager for the Sample Caching System and the System Testbed Manager for NASA’s Perseverance Rover.

Dr. Glenn Lightsey, the director of the Space Systems Design Lab and director of the Center for Space Technology and Research at Georgia Tech.

Naia Butler-Craig, PhD candidate, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering, High-Propulsion Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology; Bachelor's Degree, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Graduate Research Fellow, NASA Space Technology.