Join UT's First Live Interview with Rover Driver Scott Maxwell

By Nancy Atkinson - February 9, 2012 at 11:56 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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How often have you wanted to be a fly on the wall during media interviews of top scientists and engineers? Here's your chance! On Friday, February 10, we'll be having our first live interview via a Google+ Hangout On Air. We've done the weekly Space Hangout for several weeks now and Fraser has done multiple

virtual star parties

via a Hangout On Air. Now we'll start the first of what we hope are many live interviews that we'll share with our readers and fans. We're excited that Mars rover driver

Scott Maxwell,

will be joining us, and he will provide insight on the plans for the Opportunity rover's upcoming winter, a look back at the 8 years and counting for the rovers, a look ahead to the future, and more.

The Hangout On Air will start at 18:00 UTC (1 pm EST,12 noon CST, 10 am PST) or you can check

here at the fancy-schmancy time and date announcement

Scott put together that shows the time in almost every time zone possible.

How do you find the Hangout? The best way is to join

Google+

and "circle"

Fraser

and the Hangout On Air will show up in his timeline. You can also circle

Nancy,

who will also provide a link, but within Fraser's timeline there will also be the opportunity for you to post questions that we can ask Scott during the live interview.

If you can't watch live, the Hangout will be recorded and we'll post it later on Friday on Universe Today.

We hope you'll join us!

Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson is a space journalist and author with a passion for telling the stories of people involved in space exploration and astronomy. She is currently retired from daily writing, but worked at Universe Today for 20 years as a writer and editor. She also contributed articles to The Planetary Society, Ad Astra (National Space Society), New Scientist and many other online outlets.

Her 2019 book, "Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions,” shares the untold stories of engineers and scientists who worked behind the scenes to make the Apollo program so successful, despite the daunting odds against it. Her first book “Incredible Stories From Space: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Missions Changing Our View of the Cosmos” (2016) tells the stories of 37 scientists and engineers that work on several current NASA robotic missions to explore the solar system and beyond.

Nancy is also a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador, and through this program, she has the opportunity to share her passion of space and astronomy with children and adults through presentations and programs. Nancy's personal website is nancyatkinson.com