ByShare this storyLast July, Mohsen Al Awadhi watched from Dubai as the Hope spacecraft took off from a launchpad at the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan, heading for Mars. The lead engineer on the project, Al Awadhi, had been putting in 100-hour weeks, and, with the coronavirus pandemic shutting down most international travel, he and his spacecraft had to reach the launch site in an old Ukrainian cargo plane.This February, he will be nervously waiting as Hope makes its final descent toward Mars. The success rate of missions to the red planet is only around 30%, and most endeavors are more...…ByShare this storyLast July, Mohsen Al Awadhi watched from Dubai as the Hope spacecraft took off from a launchpad at the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan, heading for Mars. The lead engineer on the project, Al Awadhi, had been putting in 100-hour weeks, and, with the coronavirus pandemic shutting down most international travel, he and his spacecraft had to reach the launch site in an old Ukrainian cargo plane.This February, he will be nervously waiting as Hope makes its final descent toward Mars. The success rate of missions to the red planet is only around 30%, and most endeavors are more...WW…