With NASA’s @MarsCuriosity rover set for a spectacular mission of exploration in Gale Crater, what are the prospects for a near-term fusion breakthrough that would accelerate human voyages and help us here on Earth? Courtesy MediaArchives.com, Derek Shannon of Lawrenceville Plasma Physics shares the latest on the company’s Focus Fusion-1 experiment underway in Middlesex, New Jersey, with attendees of the 15th Annual Mars Society Convention on the eve of Curiosity’s historic touchdown.
