So I'm a huge space nerd. I suppose if you've made it to this author page and were curious enough to look at my bio, chances are you may also be a huge space nerd. In that case, I'm glad you made it here. You and I are officially buddies. Maybe I'll buy you a drink if we ever meet. Maybe we'll hang out and talk about rockets and spacesuits and planetary geology and other cool space stuff. If not- if you are actually an anti-space nerd and don't like NASA, then you better get out of town because we are currently in a fight. And I have trained as a ninja in Tibet since the age of 2 so you better look out. I'm just kidding. You're cool too. Bio stuff: I'm an engineer at the NASA Johnson Space Center. I work in the Shuttle Crew Escape Team and we're responsible for the orange Advanced Crew Escape Suits (ACES) and personal survival equipment astronauts wear to launch and re-enter earth's atmosphere in the Shuttle. Specifically, I work on personal astronaut cooling and emergency breathing systems. Outside of supporting Shuttle launches and making sure our hardware doesn't break, I'm pretty excited about being at NASA and try to talk to as many people as possible about what we do here. I think it's important stuff and believe exploration is a noble endeavor for us to pursue. I'm also pretty excited about a lot of the new ideas floating around about different ways the world is changing and how NASA might benefit from a new culture of openness, collaboration, and transparency. So that's why I'm here. Feel free to shoot me an email if you'd like to talk more. (But remember my warning about being a ninja if you're looking for a fight. :) )