Meet Wanessa Priesmeyer, Flight Test Campaign Manager for NASA’s Flight Opportunities program. Wanessa and her team offer opportunities for researchers to test their technologies for space applications using high altitude balloons, rocket launches, or parabolic flight research. She is also involved in an exciting student challenge called TechRise. For more …
Meet Paromita Mitra, an Avionics Systems Manager at NASA. Paromita and her team are developing autonomous avionics systems that will provide astronauts immediate communications, navigation, and environmental data. Almost like a superpower, this information will enable astronauts to live and work in space. Paromita’s involvement in NASA’s Early Career Initiative …
Meet Kellin Slater, an environmental epidemiologist who uses NASA satellite data to help detect health impacts from small fires. As a Project Manager at Colorado State University for one of NASA’s Health and Air Quality Applied Science Teams (HAQAST), Kellin is interested in environmental justice for all communities impacted by …
Meet Amber Soja, a physical scientist who serves as a NASA Science Program Manager at NASA’s Langley Research Center. Amber is part of an applied sciences team, HAQAST, that is studying how the transport of smoke affects air quality and human health. Her team uses NASA satellite data, ground sensors, …
Meet Emily Gargulinski, a NASA Research Engineer at the National Institute of Aerospace. Emily watches fires from space. She uses geospatial data to evaluate what’s happening with fires on the ground. As part of her work with NASA Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team, or HAQAST, Emily is looking …
Meet Ali Guarneros Luna, an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Ames Research Center who works on CubeSat technologies to explore our solar system. Ali helps companies create state-of-the-art technologies that NASA needs for these future space missions. To learn more about NASA’s Tipping Points partnerships, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/solicitations/tipping_points
Meet Anjie Emmett, a mechanical engineer at NASA’s Langley Research Center. Anjie is working on technologies that could one day get humans to Mars. She serves as the Segment Lead for LOFTID, an inflatable aeroshell technology that enables larger spacecraft to land safely on any world with an atmosphere. For …
Meet Prital Johnson, a mechanical engineer at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Prital serves as the lead for the Calibration Gas System (CGS), an instrument that will help look for water on the Moon. Prital is an accomplished violinist and believes that finding a way to do the impossible unites us. …
I make sure that astronauts on the Moon can breathe. Meet Kevin Grossman, a materials scientist at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. As the Principal Investigator for the GaLORE project, Kevin and his team are working on a reactor that converts dirt from the Moon into pure oxygen for the astronauts …
I make materials that make space flight possible. Meet Bob Carter, a materials engineer at NASA’s Glenn Research Center. Bob makes materials that make space flight possible. From shape memory alloys to new metallic composites, Bob and his team are working to advance rocket manufacturing techniques by creating lightweight replacement …
