A Filipino engineer raised in Baguio was part of the team who ensured that the Perseverance rover made a safe landing on Mars on Thursday, Feb. 18.
Gregorio Villar was named by the United States Embassy in the Philippines as a Filipino who contributed to the historical Mars landing, as per a tweet on Friday, Feb. 19.
Villar works at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and is an entry, descent and landing (EDL) systems engineer. The JPL manages the Mars 2020 Perseverance mission.
He has spent the past 7.5 years ensuring that the Perseverance would land safely by building and testing a system that could land a rover on Mars, according to the NASA website.
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