“I just thought: That’s what I’m going to do,” says the Fauquier County mother of three, who was appointed to the role in 2018.
She’d just seen Carl Sagan speak during a NASA event for the launch of the first two Viking landers to Mars. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, is the exception. Ellen Stofan, the first female director of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum and Steven F. Not many 14-year-olds can tell you what they want to do for the rest of their lives, nor do they home in on something as specific as planetary geology.
