People

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Exoplanet Exploration – Meet the People Behind the Science

Learn about the lives and work of the people whose mission has been to discover, understand, and describe these worlds beyond our solar system.

Dr. Knicole Colón, Astrophysicist, James Webb Space Telescope Deputy Project Scientist for Exoplanet Science.

Dr. Knicole Colón – Operations Project Scientist, NASA

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Dr. Knicole Colón is an Astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. She is the James Webb…

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Dr. Kate Calvin

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NASA’s Chief Scientist and Senior Climate Advisor - NASA Headquarters

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Georgina Goode

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Deputy Director for Communications and Education - NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

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Claire Saravia Andreoli

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Public Affairs Officer - NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

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Roland Vanderspek

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Research Scientist - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Elisa Quintana

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Astrophysicist - Goddard Space Flight Center

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David Latham, a senior astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, with the HARPS-N spectrograph, which measures the masses of exoplanets.

David Latham

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Astronomer - Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

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Jon Jenkins

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Co-Investigator for Data Processing - NASA Ames Research Center

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Karen Collins

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Astrophysicist

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Courtney Dressing

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Astronomy Professor - University of California, Berkeley

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Rob Zellem

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Astronomer

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Dr. Nicola “Nicky” Fox

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As the Associate Administrator (AA) for the Science Mission Directorate, Dr. Nicola Fox directs ~100 NASA missions to explore the…

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A Hispanic man sits smiling in front of a darkly colored poster for Enceladus, a moon of Saturn.

Pat Brennan

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Science Writer

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Giada Arney

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Research Scientist

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Elizabeth Landau

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Senior Storyteller

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Mamta Patel Nagaraja

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Associate Chief Scientist - NASA Office of the Chief Scientist

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Sophia Sanchez-Maes

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Summer Research Student

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Tracy Drain

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Flight Systems Engineer - NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

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Jonathan Lunine

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Scientist - Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science

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Sarah “Sally” Dodson-Robinson

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Assistant Professor - University of Texas

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Jim Kasting

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Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences - Penn State University

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Suzanne “Suzy” Dodd

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Project Manager - Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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William Borucki

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Science Principal Investigator - NASA Kepler Mission

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Neil Gehrels (1952-2017)

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Astrophysicist - Goddard Space Flight Center

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Dr. Jim Green

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NASA Chief Scientist (Retired) - NASA Headquarters

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Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

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Planetary Scientist - Cornell University

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Dr. Nancy Grace Roman (1925-2018)

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Astronomer / "Mother of Hubble"

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