Meet Chuck Campbell

November 26, 2018 July 5, 2022

I’m working to get big things on the surface of Mars.

Meet Chuck Campbell, Project Manager for Propulsion Descent Technologies at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Chuck works to land payloads safely on the surface of Mars using supersonic retro propulsion. To learn more about Chuck’s work, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/game_changing_development/index.html

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