OpinionApril 28, 2021
On Exploring Mars and Saving Endangered Species
The act of going to the Red Planet gives us a new lens through which we can better understand and protect life’s fragility
Stories by Christopher E. Mason
Christopher E. Mason is a geneticist and computational biologist who has been a principal investigator and co-investigator of seven NASA missions and projects. He is a professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, with affiliate appointments at the Meyer Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the Information Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School, and the Consortium for Space Genetics at Harvard Medical School. He is author of The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds.