Doctor Moogega Cooper is one of the world’s foremost experts on sterilization of spacecraft materials, working for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Planetary Protection Group. She is a planetary protection scientist charged with keeping not only Earth safe from alien life forms, but with making sure human’s extra-terrestrial voyages don’t infect places like the moon, mars or even the moons of Jupiter.
Join us as Adam Clater, Chief architect at Red Hat, and Dr. Cooper talk about space exploration - the sample return mission from Mars, and where her research will take future NASA missions.