Mark Rober

Well, what's really wild is my name, Mark Rober, is only two letters off from Mars Rover.

If you change the K to a S and the B to a V. And honestly- It was meant to be.

It took me like four years working at NASA to realize that.

It's just one day I'm like, oh, dang.

What did you do?

So I'm a mechanical engineer by trade.

I got my bachelor's and master's in that.

And I worked on-

The rover that's on Mars for like seven years.

So the way it works is they just throw you into the deep end.

And like, I'm, I was responsible for a chunk of the rover.

And so, you know, I designed what it should look like.

I, you know, you test it, you integrate it, you put it together, you have a team of people working with you.

They have graybeards, they call them at NASA, who look at your design and tell you all the reasons it sucks.

So you go back and change it.

That's effectively what it is.

But they're smart.

They know what they're doing.

They've put stuff in space before.

And so they give it to the young folks who are just coming up.