Mike Wilson was thrown out of MIT in 1981 with a BS in chemistry. In 1988, he was similarly ejected from UC Berkeley with a PhD in physical chemistry. Having grown craftier (and somewhat heavier set) in the intervening years, he was able to sneak in a postdoc before being shown the door. Subsequently, he […]

Veronica Phillips recently joined the ranks of Stinger Gaffarian Technologies, Inc., a NASA contractor, as a technical writer. At SGT, she supports many projects in their infancy by bringing a critical eye to proposals and Space Act Agreement pursuits. When she isn’t staring at the blinking cursor on her computer screen, she enjoys a good […]

 Al Globus started as a musician, playing guitar, bass, saxophone and singing around LA, San Francisco and Boston.  He was a music major at UC Santa Cruz and attended Berkeley College of Music for a year.  It’s safe to say Al played every dingy, funky club in a 40 mile radius from anywhere he lived. […]

Aleta Hayes is a contemporary dancer, choreographer, performer, and teacher in Stanford Department of Theater and Performance Studies. Before her appointment at Stanford, Ms. Hayes taught for eight years at Princeton University in the Program in Theater and Dance and the Program in African American Studies. While at Princeton, Ms. Hayes developed pedagogically innovative courses […]

 BJ Navarro joined NASA Ames Research Center in October 1989. She is a recipient of the prestigious NASA Silver Snoopy, which is awarded by the U. S. Astronauts for outstanding contributions towards space flight safety and mission success. In her career, Ms. Navarro has lead life science space flight projects, provided stowage management on major […]

Derek Love is a Equal Employment Specialist for NASA Ames Research Center.  Derek was born in Richmond Virginia. Shortly after graduating high school Derek enlisted in the United States Army. Derek’s military assignments include Babenhausen Germany, Vicenza Italy, Frankfurt Germany, Okinawa Japan, Fort Bragg North Carolina, Fort Hood Texas, Fort Drum New York and The […]

John Cumbers has been working as a synthetic biologist at NASA Ames since 2008 where he was instrumental in starting NASA’s Synthetic Biology Program and where he co-chaired the first workshop on the applications of synthetic biology to NASA’s mission. John has a Ph.D in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry from Brown University and […]

A history of my horn playing and experience in air and space by Arthur Schwartz In the 4th grade, I borrowed a single horn from my public school in New Rochelle, NY.  In 1945, I used my Bar Mitsvah gift money to buy a King double horn which I still have.  Soon, I began private […]

Frank is an aeronautical engineer specializing in basic experimental and computational aerodynamics of helicopter rotors. A graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Stanford university, he has worked for the U.S. Army Aeroflightdynamics Directorate for the past 42 years – at the NASA Ames Research Center in California. Frank is happily married and has two grown […]

Zhenzhen Cumbers grew up in Mountain View, CA and has been acting since she was a young child.  She regularly plays and sings and loves to be around new people.  She has long dreamed of going into space, ever since she saw the Curiosity Rover landing on Mars when she was just a baby.  Zhenzhen […]