Bridget Landry - Jet Propulsion Laboratory Engineer

Bridget Landry is a deputy uplink systems engineer who works for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Projects she has worked on include:

• The joint US-French oceanographic Earth orbiter Topex
• The Hubble Space Telescope
• The Cassini Mission to Saturn (and supported the highly successful Huygens probe release, landing and data relay)

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."

Another of Bridget's priorities is the advancement of women in technical fields, working to overcome obstacles to their success, and sparking and maintaining girls’ early interest in math and scientific fields.

As is obvious to anyone who has seen Bridget during her previous visits to CONvergence, Bridget is a Master Level costumer, with a special place in her heart for Star Trek. Bridget has Masquerade awards from the local to the WorldCon level. She has served as a Masquerade judge at CONvergence 2006, 2007 and 2008.

The many faces of Bridget Landry at CONvergence 2006 and 2007.