People

Dream Job

“It’s important to remind ourselves that we have the most glorious jobs in the world. We are all paid to figure out how the universe began and how it evolves. We’re paid to try to figure out how the night sky, full of galaxies and stars and planets, came to be. And we’re paid to try to find life elsewhere in the universe. What could be better than that?” 

–Paul Hertz, Director of Astrophysics Division

Mamta Patel Nagaraja

Deputy Program Scientist for Space Biology in NASA’s Division of Biological and Physical Sciences

John M. Grunsfeld

Former Associate Administrator

LaShelle Spencer

Lead Horticulturalist and Section Lead

Dr. Craig Kundrot

Division Director, NASA Biological & Physical Sciences

Shannon Berger

Mission Operations Manager and Systems Engineer

Piers Sellers (1955-2016)

NASA Astronaut / Former Director of Earth Sciences at Goddard Space Flight Center

Margaret Hamilton

Computer Scientist