NASA executive Leslie Livesay: ‘We’re getting closer to being able to answer if there is life beyond Earth’
The US space agency is finalizing the launch of a new telescope to explore planets beyond the Solar System
Leslie Livesay is deputy director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the research center where the largest robotic space missions carried out by the U.S. space agency are designed. During her nearly 40 years of experience at NASA, this mathematician and engineer has seen the potential of space probes grow from timid Martian cars, such as the Pathfinder of 1996, to the Perseverance of 2018, the largest and most sophisticated vehicle in history for exploring the red planet.
