UA Grad Launches High-Flying Martian Career

Christopher A. Lewicki’s life revolves around Mars. After graduating from the UA, he started working day and night for two years on the phenomenally successful Mars Rover landings – integrating 46 different motors, overseeing 3 a.m. practice landings and keeping 10,000 wiring connections and miles of cable straight. Now he is NASA’s flight system engineer for the Phoenix Mars Scout Mission, the UA’s largest-ever research endeavor, headed by Peter Smith of the UA Lunar and Planetary Lab. This Mars-obsessed UA aerospace engineering grad is “a force of good on our project,” Smith said.