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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.
His expressed views on creation were that although he was an "agnostic, and not a believer", [6] it seems to him that "the curtain drawn over the mystery of creation will never be raised by human efforts, at least in the foreseeable future" [6] due to "the circumstances of the Big Bang-the fiery holocaust that destroyed the record of the past". [6]
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 .
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]
Kelly Korreck is an American space scientist. She is currently an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian [ 1 ] and Program Scientist at NASA as head of operations for the Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) instrument [ 2 ] aboard the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft.
Kevin Hand is an astrobiologist and planetary scientist at JPL. [1] [2] He is also the founder of Cosmos Education [1] [2] and was its president until 2007. [3]He was working at NASA Ames when he was inspired to form Cosmos Education in 1999 after getting a grant from the Earth and Space Foundation to tour African schools to talk about how education relates to space research.
Kludze has held positions at various NASA Centers including the NASA Langley Research Center in Virginia and NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, where he became if not the first African, the first Ghanaian to ever fly (command and control) a Spacecraft in Orbit (including the ERBS and TRMM Spececrafts, etc. for NASA from a mission control center).
Dave Lavery (born May 28, 1959) is an American scientist and roboticist who is the Program Executive for Solar System Exploration at NASA Headquarters. [1] [2] He also is a member of the FIRST Executive Advisory Board, and is well-known among participants of the FIRST Robotics Competition as a mentor of Team 116.