Gentry Lee & Robert Stone - Starman The Engineer Who Helped Us Touch the Stars

In this special episode of Exploring Humanity Through Sci‑Fi, Tony sits down with one of the most influential — and often unsung — figures in modern space exploration: Gentry Lee, Chief Engineer for Planetary Exploration at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and longtime collaborator of Arthur C. Clarke.

Lee’s fingerprints are on some of humanity’s most iconic voyages into the unknown:

• the Viking missions, which delivered the first close‑up look at Mars

But Lee is more than an engineer. He’s a storyteller. A philosopher. A bridge between the scientific frontier and the imaginative frontier. His collaborations with Arthur C. Clarke helped define the future before it arrived, and his friendships with figures like Carl Sagan shaped the way we dream about the cosmos.

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