From a young age, Margarita has carried a passion for space exploration as a whole, and focused her career towards both planetary science and aerospace engineering. She started her career working as a planetary scientist studying extreme environments such as Antarctica or the Pavilion Lake. Later on, she worked at SpaceX on both rocket propulsion systems and ideating what it would mean to develop a colony on Mars.
Through this episode, we get to learn more about how Margarita was inspired to enter the space industry, the initial steps that led her to her current career, opportunities for the future of planetary science and interplanetary exploration, and advice she would give to girls or young women just starting out in their career.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FedhmRgHOks
