LEWISHAM... WE HAVE A PROBLEM

Mars rover run from flat over salon

- ISOBEL DICKINSON

A SCIENTIST is helping to run Nasa’s £2.7billion Mars Rover mission – from a one-bedroom flat above a hairdresser’s in Lewisham.

Prof Sanjeev Gupta should be based at mission control in California.

But travel restrictions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic have forced the 55-year-old to work from home in south east London.