Ellen Stofan
Ellen Stofan
Ellen Renee Stofanis the Chief Scientist of NASA and serves as principal advisor to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on the agency’s science programs, planning and investments. Previously, she served as vice president of Proxemy Research in Laytonsville, Maryland, and as an honorary professor in the Earth sciences department at the University College London...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth24 February 1961
CountryUnited States of America
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With the mission to Mars, the whole world wants to get involved. So we actually have 13 different space agencies from around the world working on the global exploration road map.
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As a card-carrying space nerd and NASA's chief scientist, I love space movies, from 'Star Trek' to 'Star Wars' to my all-time favorite - 'The Dish', an Australian comedy that celebrates that first moment when Neil Armstrong stepped down onto the surface of our moon.
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A lot of my role is advocacy, and as a scientist, you're an advocate, too, because you are coming up with a theory and having to convince your fellow scientists that you're right.
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You see countries like India really investing in their space program because they see it as inspirational and good for their economy.
When we go to explore, we do it as a globe.
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We're not going to get humans to Mars until at least the mid-2030s, and the world is going to change by then.
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We want to make sure we get living astronauts to the surface of Mars.
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We like to talk about pioneering Mars rather than just exploring Mars, because once we get to Mars, we will set up some sort of permanent presence.
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To unambiguously settle the questions of whether there was life on Mars, it will take scientists down on the surface.
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There's a huge question of whether you really need water for life.
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The public has an incredible capacity for appreciating the wonder of our planet, our solar system, our universe.
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People see space as a place where you go and cooperate.
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My key aim is to get man on the surface of Mars by the mid-2030s.
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It's part of the human character to want to know what's over the next hill, to want to know what's beyond.