Friday, October 15, 2004
NASA, LightYears Away!
Thanks for keeping my dream alive!
Then, out of nowhere, I received an email from Ana. It was about a Filipina, named Magdalena Rosario Sta. Maria. What's so special about her?
She is smart, pretty, and works for the National Aeronautics Space Administration, or NASA, the famous American space agency. Magdalena Rosario "Eena" Sta. Maria, 26, says that she gets "weird reactions" when people find out what she does for a living.
Eena's job is no laughing matter. After all, most people can only dream about what she does, or watch it in sci-fi movies. This unassuming Filipina has been working for the SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) Institute at the NASA-Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California, for over a year now. AMES Research Center is one of the 10 field installations of NASA, the world leader in space exploration.
Eena works as a research associate, doing Martian atmosphere simulations and modeling. Part of her job description includes the "development of the state-of-the-art evaporation models and the use of those models to investigate potential sites for melting on Mars.
So what if she's a Filipina working as a physicist in NASA? Read on:
Combining her love for physics with her love for computers, she took up BS Physics and Computer Engineering at the Ateneo de Manila University. "At that time, computers were the newest big thing and I wanted to be part of it. In hindsight, the physics part was a plus. I wanted to get into CE partly because it sounded cool," she explains.
The geist is, Eena and I have the same course. Therefore, if I give enough effort, time, and prayers, NASA is but a couple of
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that's my sis-in-law you are talking about! Yep, she's great, smart and super mabait! everyone in thefamily is soooper proud of her including me! :-)
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