Jerry Nabours

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The searing flash of flames, the ground-shaking vibration, the deafening roar of engines – witnessing a space shuttle launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, is not something easily forgotten by most, but for Lauren Edgar, it was life altering. The then-second grader, who came to visit her grandmother in Florida, left her vacation with more than warmth in her heart. Little Lauren’s imagination was on fire. “That moment was pretty significant for me – the realization that there were people on board and they were leaving this planet.” She began to wonder what else was out there, and thus began her own countdown to a career in space exploration. Edgar went off to Dartmouth College, intending to become an engineer. However, after a research internship looking at meteorites, she discovered her love for geology. Throughout college she was involved in a variety of space-related projects, including a few reduced-gravity flights on NASA’s C-9, also known as “the vomit comet,” a nano-satellite project and two internships at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. After college, she went to graduate school at CalTech, where she earned her master’s and doctorate degrees in geology. Through her graduate school research, Edgar first got involved in the Mars Exploration Rover mission, helping with both operations and the analysis of spacecraft data.

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