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Summary: Going to Mars Is About More Than Science EG - Monterey Conference Center Rocket scientist Adam Steltzner recalls the strange journey that took him from failing high school geometry--twice--to an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he and his team pulled off one of the most heart-stopping landings ever attempted on the surface of Mars.