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SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The Texas Longhorns held their first team practice at the University of Incarnate Ward on Saturday preparing for the Valero Alamo Bowl on Dec 31. 

Texas enters the matchup as a 7-5 team that had higher hopes for its season back in August. The Longhorns entered the season ranked and were eyeing a College Football Playoff run, but bumps in the road halted those aspirations. However, Herman, the Longhorns staff and players have assured they are grateful for the opportunity to play one more game to send the seniors out on a good note.

Standing in their way are the No. 11 ranked Utah Utes, who come to San Antonio as the Pac-12 runner up after losing in their respective championship game against Oregon. The Utes should give the Longhorns all they can handle. Texas is an underdog in the Alamo Bowl against the Utes, which is actually a familiar spot for this program in Alamo Bowl games. UT has been the underdog in three of their four all-time Alamo Bowl appearances. So far, Texas holds a 2-1 record and secured a win in only one of the two games they entered as an underdog. 

Texas’ interim defensive coordinator Craig Naivar and select Longhorns defensive players took the podium on Saturday to discuss Todd Orlando’s firing, bowl game preparations and much more. 

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Craig Naivar opening statement regarding bowl preparations: “Outstanding. Coming down from this end, there’s Caden Sterns, Malcolm Roach, Joseph Ossai, Brandon Jones and Keondre Coburn. Just had practice this morning, a really good round of work. Had some good work done in Austin before we came down, and putting the finishing touches on the game plan, guys running around excited about what we’re doing this morning, and excited for the activities these guys are doing as part of the bowl game and earning this reward for their season.”

Q: Coach, how invigorating, how different, how seamless has it all been for you to take over the interim D coordinator spot this month?

Naivar: “Todd did such a great job of setting up our system and what we do and how we go about doing things, so it’s just following up with the things he’s laid before us. These guys have done a tremendous job of responding to that situation. It’s not an easy one, not a fun one. You lose a family member, and we all understand that we were a part of that. It wasn’t just Todd Orlando. We had a gigantic hand in everything. You could make — build a million excuses and reasons why. We’ve got to accept it is what it is, and respond the right way and go forward from that.

The staff that’s with us now and these guys have made it really easy.”

Q: Coach Naivar, what has been your message to the defense in light of the coaching changes and possibly future changes? And how has that impacted your bowl preparations?

Naivar: “Good question. As I just mentioned, the night that everything happened, we had a defensive team meeting, and as I just said, you lose family members, other coaches on this staff were loved by the players, and it’s tough. Like I said, you take ownership in why it happened and move from there, and then the biggest part of kind of the message is we as coaches are now faced with a ton of adversity as far as what are the future changes, what happens. And we’d be complete fakes and phonies to sit there in front of these young men and lecture them on being mentally tough, responding to situations, fighting through things like this and kind of mailing it in and not having a great demeanor in how you go about doing things. I think that’s really, really important as far as that goes. The message has been exactly what Coach Orlando would have said: Let’s bust our tail, work hard, we’ve got a tremendous opportunity, we’ve got a chance to send some seniors out with a bowl win with three straight wins in bowl games, and I think that’s important. And the other thing that I shared with the group that sometimes they fail to realize is yes, we didn’t meet expectations, yes, we had problems. We weren’t as good as we wanted to be and we didn’t hold up the standard we needed to. But in the last four ballgames, I believe the number is — we held opponents’ scoring offenses to an average of 11 points under their scoring average. Three of the four teams are bowl teams that has a pretty good offense. Once Coach Orlando was able to get some pieces back, although not completely healthy but got pieces back, we were making strides, and we’ve got to continue to do that. The young guys, the guys gained experience this year, need to continue to build on it and work on it in these bowl practices and continue to attack it. Like I said at the end of the day, we as leaders, we as people that sat in these young men’s living rooms or know their families very well would be a disservice and be phonies to not bust our tail and do everything we can to not send these guys out the right way regardless of our situation. That doesn’t matter. Winning a football game on New Year’s Eve is what matters.”

Q: Keondre and Joseph, a lot of these bowl games come down to who really wants to be here and is motivated to play. Why is Texas motivated to play? Why is this important?

Keondre Coburn: “I mean, it’s just another opportunity to play football. Playing in December is very huge for players in college, period, even high school. So just to have the opportunity to play again is really huge for us.”

Joseph Ossai: “We’re all motivated to play any chance to go out there and showcase your skills and have fun with the people you work so hard with is a blessing, I think. The other teams — there are a lot of other teams out there that their season ended early. Very appreciative to be here, and we’re ready to get to work.”

RELATED: KVUE REWIND: No. 18 Texas Longhorns top Iowa Hawkeyes in 2006 Alamo Bowl (Dec. 30, 2006)

Q: Craig, you’ve got a couple guys up here that are definitely coming back next year. What would you tell Keondre or Caden or Joe or anybody that came to you, because in some cases this is their first reality of how this is a business. What do you tell them going forward?

Naivar: “Well, I think it’s accountability and ownership. We as coaches have the biggest brunt of that accountability and ownership of what happened. There are very high standards in what we do, and it’s life lessons when you don’t meet certain standards. There are results, there are consequences, there’s positive and negative consequences. Holding the trophy up in the Sugar Bowl last year was a positive result. Not playing in the conference championship game and reaching some of the goals we wanted to is a consequence. It’s part of that. It’s part of life. One thing that I think that’s important in all of this, not just winning or losing football games but learning life lessons. You’re going to face adversity. Sometimes it’s created by yourself, sometimes it’s not. But you’ve got to learn how to respond, and how you respond is a thousand times more important than actually what happened to you.”

Q: Brandon and Malcolm, y’all committed to the previous coach, played y’all’s freshman seasons and then this current staff came in. What were some of the first things that this current staff said to you to engage with y’all and get y’all rowing the boat for them and now that this is your last game for this staff, what are your thoughts looking back on that process when they came in?

Brandon Jones: “I think the biggest thing that we took from the coaching staff, obviously they didn’t recruit all of us, and just how the situation was. I think we ended it the right way. I think the biggest thing that they brought to us which kind of opened our eyes was how close knit and when you’re a close knit team and when you really trust the process and just being a part of that whole culture shift really opened our eyes. I know personally just being around the type of guys that have came in with me and the guys that came behind me, just how important that relationships are, and just being real all the time. Stuff doesn’t always go your way, obviously, and sometimes you don’t — you’re not able to — you’re not put in the situation that you want to be put in, but these coaches really strive to make us — have taught us a lot of stuff in football that also goes with stuff in the real world, and I think it’s made me and a lot of the other guys better men at the end of the day.”

RELATED: KVUE REWIND: No. 23 Texas Longhorns rally to upset No. 13 Oregon State Beavers in 2012 Alamo Bowl (Dec. 29, 2012)

Malcolm Roach: “You know, everything wasn’t smooth sailing from the beginning. But just like my parents always tell me, everything happens for a reason. You know, one day you’ve just got to look at yourself and say, you know, nothing is going to happen, the old staff is not coming back and you’ve got to work with what you have. Before you know it, you just been around each other so long you start having love for one another, and things just start clicking. You know, we just realized that we just had to work, and we work hard, and this staff pushed us more than I’ve ever been pushed in my life, and just like Brandon said, they just didn’t prepare us for football, they prepared us for life with just things we did within practice and things we did within being accountable, being on time for things like that. That was basically the biggest thing. Time was a big factor in that. You just can’t adjust overnight. But we learned that things weren’t going to change, and we had to fall in love with it, and that’s what we did. We gave this staff our heart. We opened up to them. We had a lot of good results from that. You know, like I say, everything happens for a reason, so I can’t complain at all.”

Q: Craig, two questions for you. First one, you mentioned the last four games of the regular season once you guys started getting some guys back. A lot of those guys were in the secondary, where you’re coaching. What were the strides that you saw made and how important was it to get those bodies back and how important was the health of this defense to having success? And then also, you’re a Taylor guy, you talked about growing up going to Texas baseball games and being a UT fan. I know this isn’t the way you wanted to be in this position, but what does it mean to you personally to be in such an elevated role as defensive coordinator of the University of Texas, a school that you grew up loving

Naivar: “Sure, I’ll answer your second question first or second statement there. I’m blessed every day I get to wake up and represent this state and this university, so yeah, things don’t always go the way you want them to, but there’s also been a lot of positives in our tenure here and things like that, so excited about that. Excited to be with these guys this morning and all that good stuff like that. You know, that’s a positive. Going back to the injury part of it, we can give a million different excuses of what and why things happened this year. When you take the final look at what led to everything, Coach Orlando had a really tough task every week of going through the injury report and who’s playing this week, who’s healthy, who’s not, who can do this, who can do that, so the inconsistencies were one guy is not playing maybe a specific position continuously so you can build upon prior game plans and do those things, then it creates a challenge. But it’s something we’ll respond to and do the best we can with that. But it’s been fun to get those guys back, guys that are leaders back there, guys that can get guys lined up and allowed Coach Orlando and ourselves to do more things versus sometimes with a little bit less experience, try not to ask too much of a guy that was not yet ready to do that. That’s through experience, that’s through confidence, that’s from getting on the field and playing, and that’s the only other way you’re going to gain experience is doing that.”

Q: Brandon, curious what you were thinking during that initial team meeting when you guys learned that Coach Orlando had been let go. What were your thoughts and feelings, and did that make it sort of initially difficult for you to focus on this game with everything that was spinning around the program?

Jones: “It was definitely tough. I know some of the older guys, we, I think, knew how to handle it a lot better just because we’ve been in that situation before, obviously. But we have total faith in Coach Naivar, and we knew that if anything, with Coach Orlando not being here, he would want us to finish the way we knew he wanted us to finish. I think we handled it a lot better than I initially thought, and we really just came together as a defense. And like I said, we have full faith in Coach Naivar, that he’s going to be able to get us in the right place at the right time, execute it at 100 percent and do whatever we can to win. But you know at the end of the day, I think with Coach Orlando getting fired, it just kind of gives us some fuel and motivation to have a bigger reason why this game is so important to us.”

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Q: Malcolm, a lot was made of Georgia not wanting to be there last year in the Sugar Bowl when y’all handled them so well. Utah is in a very familiar situation. They were left out of the playoff when they lost their last game. What do you think their motivation will be, and do you think you guys will be more motivated than them?

Roach: “I can’t answer that, what their motivation will be. I’m not in their locker room, so you’ll have to ask those guys. But I know we’re going to be motivated. We always are. Like Keondre and Joe said, it’s another opportunity to play. It’s me and Brandon’s last opportunity to play with these guys. We work our tails off together, so we’re going to have the same motivation we always have playing for each other, and that’s the biggest thing that’s going to drive us.”

Q: Coach, a question for you. When Coach Herman told you about the changes that were going to happen and he told you you were going to be the interim, what can you say about what that conversation was like? And the second question is are you trying to carry on Todd Orlando’s defense, or are you trying to do different things and add maybe a little bit of your own spin to it?

Naivar: “Sure. The initial response was anger and disgust at myself for things that I could have done better to help Coach Orlando and still be here. He’s one of the premier defensive coordinators in the country, and that hasn’t changed just because he doesn’t have that job. I consider him a very, very close friend, but he’s a damned good ball coach, and he has a great system in place. We would be foolish as ever to try to reinvent the wheel and try to create something different than what we’re doing. As every game plan has, you do specific things for that opponent, but we have a system in place. It’s a great system, and we’re going to execute it to the best of our ability.”

Q: Coach Naivar, what stands out about Utah offensively, their biggest strengths?

Naivar: “Yeah, any Utah team you’ve ever seen play, they’re a physical, tough oriented team. They do a tremendous job coaching their kids to be tough, and they get the right type of guys that do that. They’re equally as good at running and throwing the ball. If you’re going to load the box up, the quarterback can do good things with it. If you want to sit back there and keep people over the roost they run the ball down your throat. They’ve got a lot of experience on offense, at the skill positions especially, and they have bred upon the success they’ve had this year. They present a task that’s not just one-dimensional in what they do.”

Q: Caden and Craig … Caden, I know you talked throughout the off-season of the frustration of dealing with the ankle injury and the surgery and coming back. What was it like dealing with the knee injury and how much are you looking forward to getting on the field for this game and putting some good tape out there? And Craig, when Caden is healthy and right, what does that do for this defense? 

Caden Sterns: “So yeah, obviously dealing with all these things, I was very — was really draining, mentally and physically, and just to get back on the field as much as I can because I love playing with these guys next to me and for the dudes in the locker room. But again, just to also be in this game, to come back home and get back to my roots and play in a place I’m familiar with means a lot to me, as well.”

Naivar: “Obviously he’s pretty damned good when he’s beat up. He’s really good when he’s not. I think what’s really — things that will never be said or known, which I have the utmost admiration and love for these guys like they are my own sons is what they have gone through physically and what some of these guys have fought through, from early in the season, not just mid-season, not just late. You guys will never know some of those things. But it’s pretty damn amazing what some of these kids have done, and I say kids, young men have done. Again, I get up every morning fired up that I get to be around these guys, knowing what they’re about, knowing what they fight through, knowing what they’ve gone through. It motivates the heck out of me to be my very best for these guys.”

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Q: Malcolm and Brandon, we’ve talked a lot about how you guys were here when Texas didn’t go to bowl games, and I want to ask you both, what is it like to maybe finish with a three-game bowl winning streak, and where do both of you think this program is headed into the future with all these coaching changes that are coming?

Roach: “You know, to be able to go out my freshman year, not make a bowl game was disappointing. But I mean, you learn from it and you just try not to let that happen again, and we didn’t let that happen again. To go out and win two straight on the verge of trying to win three straight, you know, it’s exciting. That’s something that we want to get done. I don’t think it’s been done here in a long time, I think. But you know, just trying to go out there and win another game, that’s what it really comes down to. Just trying to go out on a high note with our careers and trying to send these young guys out with a lot of positivity going into the off-season because it’s always big coming off a win at the end of the season. But I just see this program going up, you know. Just had a nice recruiting class come in. You know, a lot of guys who wasn’t supposed to play this year got a lot of playing time, especially in the secondary, and you know, losing a guy like Brandon back there, it’s a lot of guys that played a lot of downs this year, and I feel like they’re going to have a lot of experience going into the next year, even being sophomores and some juniors coming up. I just see this program going up even more.”

Jones: “Yeah, I would say just being — not being bowl eligible our freshman year to making a bowl the next three years, the biggest importance that comes with playing in a bowl is the extra practices and how important those are and getting that chance. I know me and Malcolm spent like a month at home just watching the games and stuff, and having those extra practices really develops, and it kind of builds that overall experience, and getting those extra days of practice. I definitely see Texas, obviously we’ve made a bowl the last three years, and it’s always, I think, since this coaching staff has been here, it’s been going in the right direction, obviously. Like Malcolm said, it’s just exciting just to be able to play another game with these guys. I love them like they’re my real brothers, and we’re just going to do what we can do.”

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CES 2020 is fast approaching, and manufacturers often like to have a few surprises in store. There’s a rumor that Intel will unveil a new laptop cooling method at the show, with cooling performance gains of 25-30 percent — though that may only be in comparison to existing fanless designs.

According to DigiTimes:

Traditionally, thermal modules are placed in the compartment between the keyboard exterior part and the bottom shell as most key components that generate heat are located there. But Intel’s design will replace the traditional thermal modules with a vapor chamber and attach it with a graphite sheet that is placed behind the screen area for stronger heat dissipation.

The hinges will also need to be re-designed to allow the graphite sheet to go through in order to conduct heat.

This is a little hard to unpack. First of all, there absolutely is a type of graphite that can be used for thermal transfer applications, and it’s got far better performance than copper. It’s called annealed pyrolitic graphite and it’s far more thermally conductive than copper or aluminum. APG is already used in high-end electronics manufacturing. At first glance, it sounds like APG has to be what Digitimes is talking about… except APG has a whole lot of properties which make it fundamentally unsuited for a hinge.

DigiTimes specifically states that the graphite sheet in question passes through the laptop hinge. Even assuming that “sheet” is meant to translate into “wires,” annealed pyrolitic graphite has very poor mechanical properties. It’s extremely conductive, but it’s also fragile and will not withstand rough treatment of any kind. In fact, it’s normally encapsulated in a layer of protective aluminum or copper. Instead of putting APG directly in-contact with a heat source, there are vias from the heat source that carry heat downwards, into a layer of APG, as shown below:

Illustration of the k-Core concept. Image by Wikipedia

Boyd Corp, the company that owns the k-Core technology above, has positioned it for use in aerospace, satellites, avionics, and military aircraft, which strongly suggests that a cooler like this would be out of an enthusiast’s price range. On the other hand, Boyd also has an existing business building coolers for Intel.

DigiTimes states that the design “will allow vendors to create fanless notebooks and can further shrink notebooks’ thickness.” It’s also supposed to have applications for both foldable and clamshell notebooks (though foldable notebooks aren’t even a thing yet). The tech is also supposedly limited to a 180-degree folding design.

A lot of these pieces could at least theoretically fit together but I’m wondering if the solution has been described properly. I can absolutely believe that Intel has a new cooling module with a better vapor chamber design. The reference to fanless designs could be a reference to the k-Core cooler Boyd has built. How that cooler would interact with laptop hinges — and why anyone would ever want to seriously try to run a cooling solution through a laptop hinge… I’m willing to be convinced, but I don’t understand it at first glance. Given that hinges are definitionally weak points of failure, the last thing I’d think any company would ever do is put part of the cooling solution in it.

We’ll find out in a few weeks.

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China’s heavy-lift Long March 5 rocket is being readied for its comeback flight at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China’s Hainan Province.

The carrier rocket, coded as Long March 5 Y3, is planned to be launched around the end of December, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA). A LaunchStuff Twitter post pegs the liftoff as slated for Dec. 27.

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In a newly posted China Central Television (CCTV) video, CNSA deputy head Wu Yanhua reports that engineers and scientists are convinced that all of the prep work for the upcoming launch — whether in terms of technology or quality assurance — has been completed. 

“Next, we will fill it with fuel at the launching area and run some tests,” Wu told CCTV.

The Long March 5 booster is essential for China’s future space station, as well as its moon and Mars exploration plans.

“If the flight is successful, it will be tasked with a series of key missions including launching China’s first Mars probe, the Chang’e 5 lunar probe and a core module for the manned space station,” Wu said.

A modified version of the rocket, the Long March-5B, will be used to construct China’s space station.

You can see the booster being readied for the upcoming flight in this LaunchStuff video.

Leonard David is author of the recently released book, “Moon Rush: The New Space Race” published by National Geographic in May 2019. A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom or Facebook. 

HOUSTON, Texas – Playing in the SEC, Texas A&M was destined to face several prominent running backs. It’s accustom to see talented runners make their mark in the south before heading to the next level. 

On Friday, they’ll face perhaps the most dangerous running back of the season. Oklahoma State’s Chuba Hubbard is sure to light up the field against the Aggies defense in the 2019 Texas Bowl. 

“He’s sturdy, and he sheds a lot of tackles,” A&M safety Keldrick Carper said of Hubbard. “If you’re not coming with (purpose), he’ll run right through you and take it the house.”

Hubbard, a native of Canada, was recently honored in his hometown at the Edmonton Oilers game. The city of Alberta certainly should be proud of the one-man wrecking machine following his historic season in Stillwater for the Cowboys offense. 

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A&M coach Jimbo Fisher believes the Cowboys’ secret star could cause the team fits early and potentially hand them their third consecutive loss. Thanks to his ability to switch gears, the Aggies coach called Hubbard a “complete back” when on the field.

“He can accelerate, decelerate, get that shoulder down, not take shots and deliver shots,” Fisher said. “He’s extremely natural in everything he does.”

The Aggies will return to the field for the first time since 50-7 loss to No.1 LSU in November. In Tiger Stadium, the team allowed 138 yards and two touchdowns on the ground. As a strength of the team, the Aggies ranked inside the top 30 for run units under the direction of Mike Elko. 

Now, the team will be without their key run-stopper in Justin Madubuike. The junior defensive tackle announced he would declare for the NFL Draft and skip the bowl game. Junior defensive tackle Jayden Peevy is projected to start in place of him for Friday’s game. 

“Throughout this break I’ve been working harder, getting guys on my back so I can be a leader on the defensive line,” said Peevy. 

Madubuike excelled as the team’s top defender thanks to his success in the trenches. He would lead the team in sacks (5.5), tackles for losses (11.5) and quarterback pressures (seven) while tallying 45 total tackles. Peavy impressed in a rotational role with 32 stops, eighth-most on defense.  

The Aggies started the season facing one of the more impressive runners in the NCAA against Clemson’s Travis Ettiene. The junior standout finished with 1,500 rushing yards, seventh-most in the nation. Along the way, A&M would face seven other teams who featured a running back who surpassed the 1,000-yard marker. 

All fell short to Hubbard, a hockey-loving running back who declare for the draft following Friday’s action. Depending on his outing, that could sway him to return to Stillwater or make his mark at the next level. 

“(Hubbard) is a great back and he’s fast, so we’ve got to be sound and play physical to get him on the ground,” A&M linebacker Buddy Johnson said.

The Aggies ended the season on a high note last year with a dominant 52-13 victory over North Carolina State in the Gator Bowl. Odds could be against the hometown favorites as their previous appearance in NRG Stadium ended with a loss to Kansas State. A season later, the program would move on from Kevin Sumlin in favor an innovative Fisher

How will Friday go? It depends on how hot Hubbard could get. After all, his icy veins have yet to see run defense ranked inside the top 30 this season.  

The former NASA astronaut and STEM advisor to President Obama focuses his energies on his greatest passion: prepping today’s students for Mars.

A recurring thought crosses Leland Melvin’s mind sometimes when he looks up at the night sky. As he peers into the stars from his Virginia home, and sees the darkness of space he has twice visited, he recalls the ‘the sky is the limit’ sentiment of his childhood, and wonders how to make it equally magical for students.

“Kids might look at the night sky, but then they look down at their devices and tablets – and kind of get stuck there,” he says. “I want to be sure they continue to look up, and get geared into their environment, their universe. I also want them to understand we might have to gear up and look at another body, a planet, an exoplanet. I want them to have this vision.”

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In a sense, Melvin sounds like thousands of teachers: how do we bring vision into our students’ education? Unlike those teachers, he is coming at it as a NASA astronaut, NASA Head of Education, and, for five years, co-chair of the White House’s Federal Coordination in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S.T.E.M.) Education Task Force. His job? To come up with a five-year STEM plan for national education and regularly advise then-President Obama. The federal guidelines and standards that inform all STEM teachers today came from Melvin and his team.

Melvin is also coming at it as the author of two books (including Chasing Space: An Astronaut’s Story of Grace, Grit and Second Chances), and technical advisor on the National Geographic Channel series MARS, created in 2017 by Apollo 13 director Ron Howard and Brian Grazer. Prior to that, Melvin and seven other astronauts co-starred in NatGeo’s One Strange Rock, sharing experiences of Earth from the rare perspective of being a space traveler.

Meanwhile, the pieces of humankind’s greatest exploration are falling into place quickly. In late November, NASA’s InSight robotic lander touched down on Mars for the first-ever deep core and underground exploration of the planet. Space X, NASA, and soon Virgin Galactic are launching both satellites and early prototype machinery for a Mars mission. In the meantime, kids from coast to coast are engrossed in STEM curriculum, robotics, and related classes. Throw in that 2019 is the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission that landed Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, and Melvin feels the time is now to inject vision, creativity, and purpose into the way we present STEM – with a serving of astronautics included.

“When I was a kid, growing up in the late 60s and 70s, going to school was a lot of fun,” he recalled. “Look at what we aspired to in the classroom. We were sending astronauts into Earth orbit and to the moon. Even then, we were drawing pictures of flying cars and landing on Mars on our school folders, and the experts were talking matter-of-fact about Mars being the natural extension of walking on the moon. The things everyone is talking about today, we talked about then. Since we didn’t have devices and couldn’t go online to Google and look at footage from our telescopes, or deep space vehicles, we had to imagine it. Envision it. So my generation was a generation of dreamers. The difference is, technology is catching up to us now so we can focus on truly sending manned missions to Mars. I’m confident it can happen in my lifetime.”

Melvin’s work on MARS, on which he is one of two astronaut advisors (Dr. Mae Jemison being the other), cuts to the areas he’s most passionate about: matching STEM education with real and imagined space duties, enhancing creativity and vision by throwing the all important “A” into STEAM – arts curriculum – and focusing on the day-to-day of not only fulfilling experiments and tasks, but also existing as a tiny family or community. That, Melvin points out, is particularly critical.

“What we need to understand going into this is that the first mission or two may be a one-way trip, with the astronauts colonizing and staying there,” Melvin says. “We do a lot of things in MARS, from blending documentary with live-action, science with drama, but we also look at the dynamics of the group as they work together, and get used to their newer, much more hostile environment. So while Season 1 was about the novelty of being there, Season 2 focuses on the dynamics of the colonists, along with a major challenge – will it be a private or public operation to mine the resources from beneath the surface? Earth challenges will become Mars challenges at times; we need to show that. Working together is going to be critical, but so is living together.”

To that end, Melvin was thrilled to see Howard and Grazer create and cast a female commander for the mission (played by Korean-American actress Jihae). He felt that sent the proper message not only for the global diversity it represents, but also empowering girls and young women to focus more on science, tech and potentially astronautic careers.

“I love the fact there’s a female Asian commander running things with empathy and love,” Melvin said. “This whole thing about representation matters. Through that commander, more kids can see themselves being the commander of a Mars mission, or being on a Mars mission.”

“We’re seeing more and more girls involved with STEM, with STEAM, and looking at the four components of STEM in making their continuing education and career choices. Everything from engineering to robotics, geology to astronautics matters a lot, but so does empowering students to feel like they can get us to Mars – because the actual build-up and manned mission to Mars will happen under their watch, and these kids will be performing jobs that don’t even exist yet.”

Most of all, Melvin lauded the way Howard, Grazer, and the rest of the team dove deeply into his and other advisors’ direct experiences and threaded some of them into the shows. Consequently, he feels MARS will serve as a catalyst to further focus younger viewers on a space component in their STEM-based careers.

“When I was in space, I experienced this shift called the ‘overworld perspective’, which happens to a lot of astronauts when they spend considerable time in orbit, like I did — or who explored a foreign body, like the Apollo astronauts did fifty years ago,” he explained.

“I realized that to bring kids fully into the space experience, we needed to match the science and exploration with some form of entertainment – and in MARS, we have it. We have edutainment, where we have experts talk about it, but also this dramatic show that entertains the kids, so they can see what it might be like to live there. There are babies, dogs, fighting, bars… but a lot of the time, they don’t think astronauts working and living in space is really like that.”

Leland Melvin looks a lot more like a retired NFL receiver than one of the world’s greatest STEM and STEAM influencers who holds five honorary Ph.D.’s plus the doctorate he earned in school. He’s big, powerful, an avid participant in many sports, and a mover and shaker wherever he goes. He finds time in his life for photography, playing piano, reading, music, cycling, tennis, and snowboarding. He undertakes every mission like a player breaking down film, whether an interview or writing a book, and comes out having empowered adults and students alike. It makes sense: he was a star student and athlete in high school, the son of teachers who emphasized developing diverse interests, and deeply inspired by his personal hero, the late tennis great Arthur Ashe.

“It was Arthur Ashe, what he had to put up with to become a great tennis player, the issues of race at the time, and how he maintained his focus and his integrity that really inspired me,” Melvin said. “I grew up wanting to be a great tennis player like Arthur, to follow in his footsteps, but life has a funny way of redirecting us. I learned then that when it redirects you, and the redirection feels right and leads to an outcome you’d love to see, that you go in that direction.”

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His first redirection was onto the football field. Melvin took his near-perfect high school transcript, walked on at the University of Richmond and became a fine wide receiver, good enough to be drafted in the 7th round by the Detroit Lions in 1986. The Lions were good then, and he craved the opportunity to be on the same field as their superstar running back, Barry Sanders. “I felt like I had a chance,” Melvin recalled, “but I injured my leg twice in a short period of time, during camp, and if you’re a 7th round draft choice with a blown-out leg, it’s not going to work out.”

Disappointed but armed with vision, determination, and an acute scientific and creative mind, Melvin decided to try something he’d never thought about as a kid: becoming an astronaut. In 1989, NASA hired Melvin to work in nondestructive testing, creating optical fiber sensors for measuring damage in aerospace vehicles.  Twenty years later, Melvin flew two shuttle missions on Atlantis in 2008 and 2009 as a payload specialist, logging 565 hours in space – a little over three weeks. Today, the only American astronaut to ever sign a professional sports contract is the proud owner of the NFL Players Association’s “Award for Excellence” for inspiring academic achievement and excellence among current and former players.

While Melvin, a masterful storyteller, can spend days engrossed in space station stories, he prefers to focus on what happened after he returned to earth. A long-held desire to educate younger people to the mystery and opportunity of space travel, exploration, and research found its vital missing piece: his three-week experience on the International Space Station. By 2010, he was sitting with President Obama, writing federal STEM guidelines, heading up NASA’s Education program – including Space Camp – and turning his love of science, the arts, exploration, and learning into something that helped explode the STEM curriculum. Through it all, he has written books and taken on high-profile projects to emphasize how today’s educational tracks are well-poised to deliver tomorrow’s explorers.

“When kids sign up for robotics, or IT, or their STEM classes, and when they play on their mobile devices, they’re doing things that feed right into what we need moving forward on Mars and deep space exploration,” Melvin said. “They have no problem switching to new programs, apps, technologies when they come out, and they know how to put things together and problem solve difficult challenges. What they could be a part of is the next chapter in our history as human beings.”

“What often is forgotten about the Apollo years is that, from 1961 to 1969, we went from a seemingly impossible pipe dream of a young, new President to landing on the Moon. While I doubt we will see a government effort like that again, we did put 400,000 people to work on the space program, and we still use technologies today that were developed for those missions. Since only a very few will get the chance to fly to Mars, I like to focus on the STEM students who are literally going to create the next set of new technologies, new ways of doing things. And if they bring in the creative piece, the ‘A’ in STEAM, their arts piece – whatever it may be – will give us the story, creative problem-solving, vision, and perspective to help others wrap themselves around future space exploration.”

The beat goes on – and so do the accolades. Melvin was chosen as an ICON MANN with Quincy Jones, Forrest Whitaker, Steve Harvey, and 24 other men selected for their ability to inspire people of all ages through their vision and commitment to creating positive change throughout the world. He also served on the prestigious International Space Education Board.

“My life turned out a lot differently than I imagined,” Melvin said. “I never thought of being an NFL player, really, but when I was drafted, I definitely thought I had a good chance to make the Lions and have that kind of career. It didn’t work out, but because I had a good education and a pretty good idea that I would work in something that combines science and this vision of a better world, I was open to opportunities – and I ended up at NASA.”

So did the hopes of countless thousands of STEM students and teachers who have been touched by Melvin’s work throughout this decade, whether or not they know it.

The article Former NASA Astronaut Leland Melvin on Prepping the Next Generation for Mars first appeared on Innovation & Tech Today.

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