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Mark Rober is an American YouTuber, engineer, inventor, and educator.He is known for his YouTube videos on popular science and do-it-yourself gadgets.Before he became a YouTuber, Rober was an engineer with NASA for nine years, where he spent seven years working on the Curiosity rover at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Soffen has been memorialized in several ways by his peers and former students. The "Dr. Gerald A. Soffen Memorial Fund for the Advancement of Space Science Education" was established by the NASA Academy Alumni Association "to continue Jerry's commitment to the future of space by supporting motivated students in the fields of space science and engineering". [7]
Dr. Mamta Patel Nagaraja is an American engineer and scientist, and currently the Associate Chief Scientist for Exploration and Applied Research. In this role, she serves as an expert for NASA's chief scientist on missions where humans perform science in spaceflight. She has degrees in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, and ...
MUSE is NASA’s first medium-class explorer mission (MIDEX) focused on solar physics. On 10 February 2022, NASA announced that MUSE and HelioSwarm were the winning candidates to become the next missions in the agency's MIDEX. [2] [3] [4] MUSE successfully passed NASA's confirmation review in August 2024.
NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas maintains a Bioastronautics Library. The one-room facility provides a collection of textbooks, reference books, conference proceedings, and academic journals related to bioastronautics topics. [ 4 ]
She also credits the Apollo 11 lunar mission as the inspiration to become a career scientist at NASA. [3] She attended West Virginia University and completed a B.S.degree in physics in 1987. [4] She then enrolled at the University of Maryland in 1988, where she began working as a student intern at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt ...
Steven Weldon Squyres (born January 9, 1956) is an American geologist and planetary scientist. He was the James A. Weeks Professor of Physical Sciences at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] His research area is in planetary sciences , with a focus on large solid bodies in the Solar System such as the terrestrial planets and ...
Japie van Zyl (February 24th 1957 [1] - 26 August 2020) was a Namibian electrical engineer working for NASA. [2]Van Zyl was born in Outjo, Namibia.After matric he attended Stellenbosch University where he obtained an honours degree in electronic engineering cum laude in 1979 .