Michael Hecht, Associate Director for Research Management at the MIT Haystack Observatory and the Principal Investigator for the MOXIE oxygen ISRU demonstration experiment on NASA’s Mars 2020 (Perseverance) talks about MIT Haystack’s Observatory and the fascinating work being conducted including the efforts that went in to capture an image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy and how the observatory team is helping make oxygen on Mars for future planned missions to the red planet.&nb...
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Michael Hecht, Associate Director for Research Management at the MIT Haystack Observatory and the Principal Investigator for the MOXIE oxygen ISRU demonstration experiment on NASA’s Mars 2020 (Perseverance) talks about MIT Haystack’s Observatory and the fascinating work being conducted including the efforts that went in to capture an image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy and how the observatory team is helping make oxygen on Mars for future planned missions to the red planet.&nb...
Neil Rasmussen: High School Tinkerer, Fortune 500 Entrepreneur, and Philanthropist
MIT TALKS
38 minutes
3 years ago
Neil Rasmussen: High School Tinkerer, Fortune 500 Entrepreneur, and Philanthropist
In this episode, Neil Rasmussen takes us on his life journey starting as a high school student who had an insatiable appetite for fixing things, then completing bachelors and masters degrees in electrical engineering at MIT, and growing and pivoting APC to become a force in uninterruptible power for computing and other industrial uses. Now retired, Neil provides an important perspective to MIT through his service on the MIT Corporation. He also runs a philanthropic foundation with his wife. Y...
MIT TALKS
Michael Hecht, Associate Director for Research Management at the MIT Haystack Observatory and the Principal Investigator for the MOXIE oxygen ISRU demonstration experiment on NASA’s Mars 2020 (Perseverance) talks about MIT Haystack’s Observatory and the fascinating work being conducted including the efforts that went in to capture an image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy and how the observatory team is helping make oxygen on Mars for future planned missions to the red planet.&nb...
