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The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission
Claudia Alexander, on the view deck of mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was the project scientist overseeing NASA’s support role in the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission.
(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)Claudia Alexander was 40 when she was brought on as project scientist on the Rosetta mission in 2000. NASA “wanted someone who could be with the project all the way through,” she said. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
Being an African American woman has helped scientist Claudia Alexander act as a liaison between NASA and the ESA, she says. “I’m used to walking between two different cultures.” (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
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