Starting with understanding the lessons from Episode 44 ("Wisdom From the Prarie"), guest co-host Bob Luzenski (aka, America's Favorite Rocket Scientist) joins Rafe to discuss how those lessons apply to some of the human problems with a Mars mission.

Along the way, the Buf hosts discuss the Earth's unique protective ionosphere and magnetosphere, the aurora borealis, Apollo barbeque, laundry in space, and the idea that the problems we will encounter on a Mars mission are solvable if the desire to go is great enough.

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