Hi Angel,

I'm not an astronaut, so I do not personally know what it is like to travel in space. Most space scientists are not astronauts. Instead, we use data from unmanned spacecraft to study processes that occur in places where it would be difficult or dangerous to send astronauts. Of course, I do think being a space scientist is "cool!"

Yes, I like my job. I mainly do research on the Earth's magnetosphere and the solar wind using satellite data, but I also have taught classes in physics and astronomy.

At times my job can be frustrating. I have been helping another scientist test particle detectors for a sounding rocket that will be launched this winter. One of the particle detectors does not work properly. We took it apart this morning to try to find the problem but could not see anything wrong with the detector. We decided to try testing another detector and come back to this one when we have finished the others. Sometimes scientists encounter problems that we do not know how to solve, so we have to set them aside for a while and come back to them later. I like to get results right away, but it often takes a lot of patience, hard work, and help from other scientists to find the solution to a problem.

Kris

Kris

Thanks for anwsering my questions....the only time i get on here is in science class...if you have msn or yahoo we could talk...so do you have either of those?well i g2g

thanks again

angel