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Ravi Prakash | Systems Engineer NASA JPL

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July 4, 2024

8:00 am to 5:00 pm EST

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Ravi Prakash | Systems Engineer NASA JPL

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Ravi Prakash | Systems Engineer NASA JPL

Ravi joined JPL in 2005 and was part of the team that landed the Curiosity rover on Mars. After 8 years at JPL, Ravi took a break to design products to help lift people out of poverty. Ravi has since returned to JPL where he led operations of the InSight lander on Mars, helped integrate the science instruments for the Psyche mission to visit an asteroid, and now manages the group that designs the hardware to land spacecraft on different planets.

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July 4, 2024

8:00 am to 5:00 pm EST

Grade Level: 4-8

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