• Question: were you involved in any NASA projects

    Asked by 08obrient to Sara, Amy, Drew, Julia, Kimberley on 13 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by ryanmccabe.
    • Photo: Sara Imari Walker

      Sara Imari Walker answered on 10 Jun 2011:

      Hi 08obrient!! Yes I am excited to say I am involved in NASA projects! I work for NASA now as a postgraduate researcher. I am very fortunate to be funded by the NASA Astrobiology Program to do work I am really interested in. NASA pays my salary and travel expenses to do my work in astrobiology. Astrobiology is the study of life in the universe (yes that does include the search for aliens!). What I study for NASA is the appearance of the first life on Earth. We hope it will tell us more about the possibility of life on other planets. I also did a NASA project as an undergraduate student in Florida. We tried to extract water from moon soil – that was pretty amazing to be a part of!

    • Photo: Drew Rae

      Drew Rae answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      I’ve never been directly involved in NASA projects. NASA has managed to cause some well documented accidents and mission failures that we study as a way of learning about how things can go wrong.

    • Photo: Kimberley Bryon

      Kimberley Bryon answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      I haven’t ever been involved in any NASA projects. The worms I study have been sent in to space before though:

      http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1394013/How-Caenorhabditis-elegans-worms-Bristol-helping-understand-human-health-risks-space-travel.html

      Maybe someday I could help NASA work on them. Unlikely, but you never know 😉

    • Photo: Amy MacQueen

      Amy MacQueen answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      I have never been involved in any NASA projects…but I did go to the Kennedy Space Center… 🙂

    • Photo: Julia Griffen

      Julia Griffen answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      Nope, not here 🙁

      Sara’s work sounds dead cool tho 🙂

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