Putting Together A Team To Travel To Mars

Putting together a team to travel to Mars
Putting together a team to travel to Mars

Putting Together A Team To Travel To Mars

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A couple of days before the release of a film about a voyage to Mars, NASA announces it’s discovered water on the Red Planet. Whether it was a deliberate marketing ploy by NASA or not, the water news has more folks wondering about life on Mars and scientists chomping at the bit to get a manned mission there. But with such a long journey in an isolated environment, who would be best suited to embark on the trip with other astronauts and not get on each other’s nerves? We’re joined by Suzanne Bell, an Associate Professor of industrial and Organizational Psychology who’s working on a NASA-funded research on team composition. (NASA)