15-07-09 Steve Squyres:Robot Guy Says Humans Should Go To Mars

Forty years after the first manned moon landing on July 20, 1969,SPACE.com asked Apollo astronauts and leaders of the space community to ponder the past,present and future.Steve Squyres,lead scientist for the Mars Exploration Rover Project and a professor at Cornell University,is an avid fan of human spaceflight though he works on one of the most successful robotic missions to space,and is optimistic about humanity's chances of getting back to the moon - and even to Mars - in the coming decades