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Andrew Rader

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Andrew Rader is a Mission Integrator at Space X with a PhD in human spaceflight from MIT (2009). A spacecraft engineer with experience on half a dozen space missions and is currently a second-round candidate for the Mars One project, which aims to send human settlers to the red planet starting around 2023. In March 2013, Rader won Discovery Channel's #1 Competitive television series Canada's Greatest Know-it-All.

Michael and Andrew talk about why people want to go to Mars, why it's a one way trip, what life would be like there and more!