Launched in 1989, Magellan was equipped with a radar system that peered underneath the planet’s thick clouds to map its entire surface for the first time. In some sense, her interplanetary destiny seemed preordained even before she was born: her father hails from a rural community in Pennsylvania named Venus.įittingly, the very first mission Smrekar worked on was NASA’s Venus orbiter Magellan.
But instead of becoming an astronaut, she ended up as a planetary geophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where she worked on robotic explorers of other worlds.
Like many kids, Sue Smrekar dreamed that she would one day voyage into space.
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