Bridget Landry holds degrees in chemistry (BA, UCSD, 1984) and planetary science (MS, Caltech, 1986) and works as an engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. She has worked on the Hubble Space Telescope and the joint US-French oceanographic Earth orbiter Topex, where she was a Sequencing Engineer.

Bridget's favorite position so far has been on the Mars Pathfinder project, where she did a variety of jobs, from adapting software packages to the Pathfinder command set, to preparing and verifying many of the imaging commands and panoramas. Bridget says, "I'd like to get back to working on Mars, both because that's the planet I'm most interested in, and because the Mars missions are going to be 'faster, better, cheaper' missions, which I have found that I like. Riskier, but also more satisfying."

Bridget has recently worked on the Cassini Mission to Saturn, where she was once again in sequencing, and supported the highly successful Huygens probe release, landing and data relay.

When asked how she arrived at her current position, Bridget explains: "A combination of blind luck, good training, and networking. I applied for my current job (Cassini) in the blind (sort of; a transfer within the company, but I only knew one or two people on the new project). I got my last job (Mars Pathfinder) because someone I knew on a previous job had suggested my name to her boss. The job before that (Topex) was again a within-the-company-transfer and I knew absolutely no one at that job before I got it. And in the one before that, my first in this field (Hubble), I was hired by a professor I had known in grad school."

She also takes great interest in the advancement of women in technical fields, and the helps and bars to their progress, as well as in the problem of sparking and maintaining girls’ early interest in science and math.

With the other side of her brain, Bridget is a Master Level costumer, who has been on panels and won Masquerade awards from the local to the WorldCon level. She has served as a Masquerade judge at CONvergence 2006 and 2007.