Asian American and Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month"These days, I can still take advice from people but not let it totally dictate or control the path that..."I had two kids that were three and five, and I was working full time, and I was doing the..."I say that to my team, whenever I have an opportunity. I share with my team that they are enabling..."For the girls or women in science — or in any profession or job — opportunities are more abundant than..."It takes a lot of courage to confront your fears and failures. Each and every time is really difficult, but..."We always have some level of self-doubt, but if the end goal of what you’re trying to achieve is going..."It was just this Frankenstein monstrosity of PVC pipes and messy high schooler soldering and wiring. But no matter how...Hired by NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston in 1963, Josephine Jue was a Chinese-American computer programmer and mathematician who..."It's important for me to be an advocate for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility broadly for minorities and Asian Americans...Phuong Marangoni is the deputy project planning and control lead for NASA’s Power and Propulsion Element project supporting Gateway, a...“NASA is so big on its own, and for kids to feel like they're a part of it, it symbolizes..."I think that getting to be a crewmember on the International Space Station, and getting to serve there over the..."I realized long ago that I am an ant carrying my little grain of sand. But someday, this anthill will...Dr. Kartik Sheth's career spans academia, non-profits, and government.“I’ve always wanted to learn about cosmology, specifically. The history of the universe is fascinating for me." — Dr. Howard...Nina Wang has more than a decae of experience in financial reporting and analysis, financial statement audits, and internal controls.Misty Snopkowski is NASA’s program executive for the Commercial Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) Development program."If you find yourself getting lost in it, pursue it feverishly.” — Paromita Mitra, Principal Investigator for the Joint Augmented..."There will still be people who question everything and that’s a good thing—you also have to embrace critics and find..."Can you imagine someone landing on the Moon that looks like you?” — Risha George, Advanced Communications Capabilities for Exploration...I try to keep an open mind and meet people where they’re at, regardless of what they think of me,..."Though I’m a Flight Director and the leader of that team, especially in Houston, I’m not significant unless there is..."If I had a chance to go to the Moon – absolutely. If I had a chance to go to...“This is what makes America great. The opportunities are there and anything is possible. I’m a son of an immigrant,...As an atmospheric scientist, Jie Gong explores ice clouds and other frozen precipitation like snow.Perseverance entry, descent, and landing lead Allen Chen, gives remarks during a NASA Perseverance rover mission landing update.Electrical Test Operations Engineer David CarverSwati Mohan is currently the Mars 2020 Guidance, Navigation, and Controls Operations Lead, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory."I go outside the box to get ideas. I think about, how do I solve this? I apply the same..."What has changed? What hasn’t changed? Are we progressing? I think that we are in some ways, but in other..."I try to be that glue or conduit, ensuring not only that the research portfolio is healthy, but the team..."My work will be on that rocket when it flies and this will bring my childhood dream to fruition.” —..."The only reason that I am here is because I have had women and men in my life who have..."It takes twenty thousand people to run NASA — and we’re not all astronauts and scientists and engineers. I try...“I was born in India soon after we got independence from the British. My mother was very keen that her...Helen HwangIn this iconic image, Staion Commander Leroy Chiao of NASA watches a water bubble float between him and the camera.Chemist Audrey Miyamoto preparing an Apollo lunar sample to analyze for amino acids at NASA’s Ames Research Center.Iowa native astronaut Raja Chari was selected by NASA to join the 2017 Astronaut Candidate Class.Katherine Park is a designer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
![“I had the privilege of being the very first project manager for [the] Near Space Network (NSN), and in my current role as deputy program manager for [the] Exploration and Space Communications Division, it is still in my portfolio. NSN is one of the [agency’s two] communication and navigation networks. When we see the volume and the variety of NASA, other agency, and commercial missions supported by the network, and the science being achieved, and the exploration being enabled — when you leave for the day, you feel accomplished that you contributed [to the] agency’s goal. You contributed toward [the] nation’s priorities, such as cislunar [exploration], and then you helped humankind by enabling the science and exploration. Without communication, every satellite in this space is a black box. So, just knowing that every single day we are flowing terabytes of data through relay and direct-to-earth services directly to our [missions], enabling the exploration and achieving the science — is a great sense of accomplishment. ... Whatever role you are in, as long as you find a way to understand what mission, what goal, what objective you are contributing to, there is no bigger motivator than that. As a software programmer, normally you think that your job is to come in and write some code and solve some discrepancy reports and do the testing — and then you go home. But in the end, when you see that the program you are writing or fixing is something that controls the satellite that’s observing the sea levels and the sea temperatures or [controls] a capsule that is carrying astronauts, now you know you're actually contributing to a bigger purpose, a bigger objective. I say that to my team, whenever I have an opportunity. I share with my team that they are enabling science and exploration for dozens of missions being supported by NSN. Initially it just seems like words, but once they start realizing [their contributions] are real, I can tell you those people don't want to go anywhere. They just feel that sense of accomplishment.” NASA Deputy Program Manager for Exploration and Space Communications, Vir Thanvi poses for a portrait, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024 at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Photo Credit: (NASA/Thalia Patrinos)](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/nhq202402070014.jpg?w=1024)
