As a child, Katie remembers her father pointing out NASA/JPL scientists on TV documentaries and calling them "the best engineers in the world."

Michael views how work as helping people bring their exciting, novel, or "sometimes crazy" ideas to life.

Rebecca worked with two companies, in Switzerland and the U.S., to design and provide actuators—important parts for the Mars 2020 mission.

Larry and his team have contributed to understanding how to find and pick up sample tubes the Perseverance rover gathers and leaves for future retrieval.

Amanda, an engineer for instruments on Mars rovers, has a one-word answer when asked what excites her most about Mars or space exploration: "everything."

The biggest personal challenge for Daniel was spending six weeks at a remote field camp hunting for meteorites in Antarctica.