Alice Bunn
Credit: UK Gov
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Occupation: President of UKspace
Research Areas: Materials Science, Satellites
"That’s the exciting thing about these scientific missions – you don’t know what you’re going to find."
Careers
Credit: UK Gov
John Glenn
spacecraft on 20th Feb 1962.
Credit: NASA
Occupation: Astronaut & Politician
Year born: 1921
Research Areas: Space Flight, Politics
"Space Flight, Politics"
MiMi Aung
Credit: NASA/JPL
Occupation: Engineer & Project Manager
Year born: 1968
Research Areas: Deep Space Exploration
Mary Jackson
Credit: NASA
Occupation: Mathematician & Engineer
Year born: 1921
Research Areas: Aerospace Engineering, Aerodynamics
Arthur Walker Jr.
Credit: NASA, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè
Visual Archives, Physics Today Collection
Occupation: Physicist
Year born: 1936
Research Areas: Solar Physics, Rockets
Tim Peake
Credit: NASA
Occupation: Astronaut
Year born: 1972
Research Areas: Flight Dynamics, Aviation
Charles Bolden Jr.
Credit: NASA
Occupation: Astronaut & Administrator of NASA
Year born: 1946
Research Areas: Space Exploration, New Technology
Jocelyn Bell-Burnell
Credit: Wikimedia (User: Anrie)
Occupation: Astrophysicist
Year born: 1943
Research Areas: Radio-Astronomy, Pulsars
Adriana Ocampo
Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani
Occupation: Planetary Geologist
Year born: 1955
Research Areas: Meteorite Craters, Planets, Moons
Edward Ching-Te Chao
Occupation: Geologist
Year born: 1919
Research Areas: Meteorite impacts
"People don't believe, but you do your hard work. It takes time to gradually convince them. You always have to find new, better evidence."