Laura Jones-Wilson, M.S. ’10, Ph.D. ’12, has long had her sights set on outer space.
“I learned about space at an Earth Day celebration when I was 5, and as soon as I found out that people had left the planet, I was like, ‘I’m in, let’s do this!’,” she remembers. “I got the word ‘aerospace engineer’ from watching ‘Star Trek’ episodes, and by early middle school, that’s what I was convinced I was going to be.” NASA/JPL/Provided
Laura Jones-Wilson, Ph.D. ’12, and her colleagues conduct microgravity experiments aboard an aircraft that simulates weightlessness during freefall dives.