As part of the Planetary Protection team, Lisa has helped monitor the cleanliness of spacecraft going to Mars--like InSight and Mars 2020.

Won says that as an impoverished immigrant from Korea, he never dreamed he'd someday operate spacecraft on another planet and win NASA awards for his work on Mars missions.

During Nagin's childhood in India, Malaysia, and Kansas, her mother supported her non-traditional path of becoming a NASA engineer. Now Nagin says every day exploring space is as rewarding as the first.

Sarah says the job of spacecraft navigators is like serving as an "interplanetary Google maps." The day InSight landed on Mars was the "most unique and memorable" of her NASA career.

As a former Civil Air Patrol cadet, Rishab's deep-seated passion for aviation and space led him to multiple roles with NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and its Curiosity rover.

While working on robotic and sampling systems for Mars rovers, Doug enjoys helping scientists achieve an "amazing road trip" for rovers like Perseverance.