Joalda Morancy – On the Path from Earth to Mars

Joalda Morancy is a Geosphysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics student at the University of Chicago. She just started an internship with NASA, and her goal is to become an astronaut, and one day walk on Mars.

Joalda is Director of Operations at Students for the Development and Exploration of Space, or SEDS USA. When she started college and realized that SEDS didn’t have a chapter in Chicago, she started one - and she’s also the president of the Chicago chapter.

On top of all that, she is also a science communicator. Joalda has a passion for inspiring low-income and disadvantaged kids in Chicago to see that anything is possible; that they don’t need to believe in the limitations that other people have put on them.

In this episode, we talk about what inspired Joalda to pursue Astronomy. We look at the current and future state of Mars exploration, and what it will take to set up a permanent base on the red planet. And we also discuss some other awesome ideas for how humans might one day live in space. If you’re not familiar with this sort of thing, some of it might seem pretty out there. But rest assured it’s all based on science and within the realm of the possible.

SOME RELEVANT LINKS:

Joalda Morancy Website:
https://www.joalda.space/

Joalda Morancy on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/solarrsystem

Students for the Exploration and Development of Space:
https://seds.org/

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory:
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/

ECOSTRESS Project:
https://ecostress.jpl.nasa.gov/

JPL Solar System Ambassadors:
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system-ambassadors/events/

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"Episode 15. Joalda Morancy – On the Path from Earth to Mars" was produced by Malcolm McMillan for This Amazing Story. ©2020

This episode was recorded and produced on the unceded lands of the Squamish, Musqeum, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations people.