In November, 2006, the Mars Global Surveyor’s mission came to an end.

Systems engineer Andre Dress was on the team charged with figuring out why.

In this 2-part interview with Andre Dress, co-moderators Tom and Eleanor learn how mission review teams are formed, the process they go through to figure out the program and how to prevent similar future mission mishaps.

We also had some time to discuss some of the exciting new work Andre had been—and continues to be engaged in with NASA.

This is part 2 of our interview with Andre Dress.

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Andre Dress began his professional career as a NASA contractor with Ford Aerospace on the Landsat 4/5 program and specialized in mission operations and attitude control.

He  ...