Hsiao Smith, originally from Malaysia and Singapore, began her NASA career with a high school internship at Goddard Space Flight Center. Over 35 years, she advanced from designing high-voltage power supplies to becoming the deputy observatory manager for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
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Melanie Grande, an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Langley Research Center, specializes in mission design and systems analysis, contributing to human exploration plans for the Moon and Mars. She now works on the Mars Architecture Team, modeling mission campaigns.
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Dr. Ariadna Farrés-Basiana would look up at the sky and marvel at the immensity of space when she was younger. Now, the bounds are limitless as she helps NASA explore the expansive universe by computing the trajectories and maneuvers to get a spacecraft into space.
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Rebekah Hounsell is an assistant research scientist working on ways to optimize and build infrastructure for future observations made by the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The mission will shed light on many astrophysics topics, like dark energy, which are currently shrouded in mystery.
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Bindu Rani had childhood dreams of flight. Today she lifts her gaze even higher, helping researchers study stars, planets beyond our solar system, and black holes billions of times more massive than our Sun.
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Research astrophysicist Regina Caputo puzzles out how the universe works by studying the most extreme events in the cosmos.
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