She's on staff at Fernbank, the only major science center in America operated by a school district. I remember watching the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo launches on tv in the cafeteria of our grade school, and thinking that was the most exciting time to be alive. That internship and completing a master's degree in education was a great experience. I worked with teachers and students from all grade levels. The observatory there allowed us to show people the lunar craters again, and it was during the years there that the Voyagers reached Jupiter and Saturn, sending back exciting close-up pictures.
Astronomy brings all the different sciences together.
And it's beautiful, as well as new information coming in that you get to put together. I think of it as a puzzle, science as the ultimate detective story, trying to figure out where something came from, how it got that way, or what's going to happen next. Every time some new instrument becomes available for scientists to use, there's a whole bunch of new questions that come up from it.