News Roundtable | Mars Rover Engineer

• Christopher McKnight Nichols, Elizabeth Hovde, and Aaron Mesh join us to discuss some of the big stories of the week on the News Roundtable.
• We speak with NASA engineer Kobie Boykins about his work on the Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity Mars rovers as well as NASA's future plans for exploring the red planet.

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