MIT Alumni Team Up for the Mars Curiosity Project
Katie Weiss Rebounds for the Landing
Senior flight software engineer Katie Weiss, SM ’03, PhD ’06, is pictured on landing night with her flight software operations team. Weiss underwent open brain surgery about two weeks before the landing but was back in mission control for the big event. She’s now heading up the design of JPL’s next-generation flight software architecture. Also a dedicated fitness instructor, Weiss calls NASA “one of the pinnacles of the best the human race can achieve, like the Olympics for athletes.”
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