On episode 365, Johnson Space Center’s Chief Technologist discusses how Johnson and White Sands Test Facility are opening their Front Doors to those interested in exploring opportunities, capabilities, technology and data available to different organizations.
Houston, we have a podcast.
Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center.
I'm Dane Turner and I'll be kicking off this episode today.
On this podcast, we bring in the experts, scientists, engineers and astronauts, all to let you know what's going on in the world of human spaceflight and more.
And once again, we are happy to be welcoming another talented individual lending their voice as a host of this podcast.
Niloufer Ramji.
Niloufer, welcome.
Hey, Jane, thanks so much for having me.
So, Niloufer, what do you do here at NASA?
Well, I'm really happy that you asked that.
I am actually the person that is responsible to lead a team of public affairs officers for all of our exploration and development programs.
So you hear Moon to Mars across NASA, and that's really what our area focuses on.
It focuses on programs like the like Artemis.
It focuses on spacesuits, tools, rovers, commercial lunar payload services, engineering, moon rocks, you name it.
It probably falls under my area if it's going to the mo, Mars or beyond.
You cover a lot of things here.
And I've heard that before you even got to NASA, you had a whole life in another part of the world.
What did you do?
Yeah, so I actually spent a little part of my career living and working in East Africa doing communications for a nonprofit.
So the job was to look at the development work that was taking place in East Africa to demonstrate to areas like Europe and North America the different projects that are impacting individuals and how aid dollars were helping them.