Many students often think space is “cool” and wonder how they might be able to work for NASA one day. I now am a research scientist at NASA Ames doing what I love every day, which is exploring our solar system and working on new space missions so we can learn more about this incredible Universe that we live in. To achieve this goal, I went to graduate school and earned a doctorate degree in Planetary Science. After that incredible summer I knew I wanted to work at NASA Ames and I wanted to study planetary science and Astrobiology. I participated in the NASA Academy program during my last summer after college, spending 10 weeks at NASA Ames Research Center in California working on a research project on Mars and Astrobiology. I worked at Williams College studying interacting galaxies and the Space Science Telescope Institute studying very old galaxies with the Hubble Space Telescope, and I spent a summer as a counselor at Space Camp before traveling to Australia where I studied stars. Every summer during college I had a summer internship someplace different, which gave me the opportunity to explore different aspects of Astronomy and Planetary Science and learn what I liked to do best. I could see craters and mountains on the moon, just with that small telescope that had been in our attic for years! It was then I realized the moon (and the other planets) were real places – places we could explore and visit – and I knew I definitely wanted to learn more.Īfter high school, I attended Colgate University and majored in Astrogeophysics, which allowed me to take all kinds of math and lots of science (Physics, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, etc.).
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I was always fascinated with NASA and the space program, and eagerly sought ways to learn even more throughout elementary and middle school, whether it was going to the local science museum and planetarium for a visit, watching the movie “Space Camp” over and over, or setting up space shuttle cockpits for my friends to play in so we could reenact a shuttle mission from launch to landing! One of the greatest moments was using a small telescope to look at the moon one night from my backyard in Central New York. Ever since my brief lesson on the solar system in the third grade, I have been interested in learning more about the planets.
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