What's the worst that can happen when you let a recent college grad command a $330 million spacecraft?
Victor Hwang is a New England born nerd. After graduating from Tufts, he helped build ground telescopes, fly spacecrafts, and chased a dream to become a circus acrobat. Now he's a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute trying to make humanoid robots a little bit smarter.
This story originally aired on October 27, 2013.
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What's the worst that can happen when you let a recent college grad command a $330 million spacecraft?