I love working at NASA, but the part that has been the most satisfying on a day-to-day basis, hour-to-hour, minute-to-minute, has been working on board the space station. Even if I'm just cleaning the vents in the fans, it all is important.
Viewing the earth from above gives you this sense of how special the planet is that we live on.
My undergraduate, I double-majored in biology and chemistry. Biology was kind of my love.
Unfortunately, spaceflight takes a lot of time and money.
My parents are the hardest-working people I ever knew: they always worked every day, all day; they had to come up with the solutions to make things work. And I think that work ethic, maybe stubbornness, single-mindedness, definitely played a role for me. I'm definitely thankful for my roots.
I love Italian, Mexican, Thai. Something spicy.
