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Actually, I wanted to be a pediatrician until I was about 16 years old. I was always interested in space, but I didn t really know about opportunities to turn that interest into a job. When I was 16, I took my first physics class. I was lucky enough to have a great teacher, and everything was so understandable and easy. That was when I really considered engineering, as a way to pursue space, she explains in her profile. A Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Cornell University and her MS and PhD from MIT in Aeronautics/Astronautics followed before she joined Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where she has worked on multiple missions such as Cassini (mission to Saturn) and GRAIL (a pair of formation flown spacecraft to the Moon). She has worked on Mars 2020 since almost the beginning of the project in 2013, including as its GNC operation’s lead at JPL in Pasadena, California. ....