Mars lander’s chem lab is NASA’s MECA
If you think engineering design today is focused only on high-volume, short-cycle, penny-critical products, you’re wrong. NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander, launched from Cape Canaveral Aug. 4, carries a platform of seven analytical lab instruments that represent the culmination of years of extraordinarily detailed thinking, planning, evaluation, redesign and production, all to exacting standards, for …
