Laurel Clark
Laurel Clark
Laurel Blair Salton Clarkwas an American medical doctor, United States Navy Captain, NASA astronaut and Space Shuttle mission specialist. Clark died along with her six fellow crew members in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAstronaut
Date of Birth10 March 1961
CityAmes, IA
CountryUnited States of America
country travel people
I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.
ocean weather space
Some things are only capable of being done in space. Examples of that are looking at our Earth from that far away, and understanding the entire processes of storms and weather patterns, and oceans, and coastlines.
earth hello planets
Hello from above our magnificent planet Earth.
space glasses water
Gravity pulls our bodily fluids down, like water in a glass goes to the bottom part of a glass. In space, the water doesn't stay in the bottom of the glass. It distributes itself evenly over time throughout the entire volume of the glass.
country differences years
Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.
growing-up moon thinking
I can't think of anything specific growing up that pointed me toward NASA at all. I was interested in the Moon landings just about the same as everyone else of my generation. But I never really thought about being an astronaut or working in space myself.