Big Picture Science – Math’s Days are Numbered: Rob Manning / NASA Math

by Gary Niederhoff on May 31, 2015

Rob Manning / NASA Math
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Part 4 of Math’s Days are Numbered, featuring Rob Manning, Flight system chief engineer at the Jet Propulsion Lab, responsible for NASA’s Curiosity rover, explaining why landing rovers on other planets can’t be done without math.

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