Emily Lakdawalla Biography

Emily Lakdawalla is an internationally admired science communicator and educator passionate about advancing public understanding of space and sharing the wonder of scientific discovery.
Lakdawalla came to The Planetary Society in 2001 to oversee a portion of the Society's Red Rover Goes to Mars project an education and public outreach program on the Mars Exploration Rover mission funded by LEGO. She ran worldwide contests that selected and trained high school students to travel to Pasadena to participate in rover operations training exercises in 2002 and then in actual Mars Exploration Rover mission operations during January and February of 2005.
Meanwhile Lakdawalla first blogged for the Society in 2002 as a member of a Society-funded team sent to Devon Island in the Canadian high Arctic to gather data to support future tests of autonomous software for Mars airplanes. She continued to write news articles for the Society's website for the next few years covering a range of planetary science topics from Cassini to Mars orbiters to asteroid encounters while also contributing articles to the Society's print publication The Planetary Report. Another brief blogging effort coincided with the descent of the Huygens probe to Titan in January 2005 which Emily reported on from ESA mission operations in Darmstadt.

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