Landing the Perseverance rover on Mars, working in clean rooms to minimize the microbial bug count, and slogging through hundreds of engineering trade-offs with Swati Mohan, an aerospace engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. What are the "seven minutes of terror"? And is there evidence of past life on Mars? [buzzsprout episode='18903199' player='true'] View the episode transcript About What It's Like to Be... In each episode of What It's Like to Be..., bestselling author Dan Heath speaks