• Question: Would you like to work at NASA??

    Asked by themadman2477 to Andrew, Ash, Gem, Paige, SJ on 4 Jul 2012.
    • Photo: SarahJayne Boulton

      SarahJayne Boulton answered on 4 Jul 2012:

      I would LOVE to work at NASA – they’ve got a whole biomedical department devoted to investigating zero gravity and solar radiation exposure in space – amongst other things – I was actually considering applying for one of their fellow ships! THere is a whole brach devoted to it called the NATIONAL SPACE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE (NSBRI)

      Check out their biomedical works here::

      http://www.nsbri.org/

    • Photo: Ashley Cadby

      Ashley Cadby answered on 4 Jul 2012:

      Yes, I think that would be a lot of fun

    • Photo: Paige Brown

      Paige Brown answered on 4 Jul 2012:

      I would love to!!!!! Maybe for their science communications arm!! I love their website on global warming conditions! Did you know that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is now up to 393 parts per million?! It used to be only 280! http://climate.nasa.gov/

    • Photo: Gemma Staite

      Gemma Staite answered on 4 Jul 2012:

      They are such a fascinating organisation, it would be great to work for them. It would be really interesting

Comments

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    themadman2477 commented on :

    Do you think that there keeping tuns of information to them selfs if so do you think its go to keep it from us to not make up panic or a bad thing because people want to no new things??

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      SJ commented on :

      NASA probably do have a few secrets, I’m not sure what like – but I don’t think anything on like a ‘Men in Black’ scale is going on – it’s probably mostly about special kinds of rocket propulsion systems or space warfare stuff…maybe I’ve just been watching too much Battlestar Galactica? 😀

      I think NASA are very guarded about their technologies falling into the ownership of countries. They’ve spent a lot of time and money investing in the development – would you blame them for wanting to keep things like that secret?

  • Photo: Paige

    Paige commented on :

    I am sure that nasa has sensitive information, especially about future missions and such, that they don’t release for purposes of the safety of their crews. But I don’t think that NASA keeps secrets such as alien life or something! NASA is funded with federal money so that images and information on their website, for example, is freely available to us. Although they have to ensure that they do their jobs and keep their missions under wraps enough to keep them safe, they owe it to our government and our people to supply information about our environment and our surrounding planets and stars!!!