Bekah Sosland Siegfriedt

Bekah Sosland Siegfriedt grew up in the small town of Fredericksburg in the heart of Texas. From an early age, she would lay on a blanket gazing at the dark night skies wondering if she was alone. Her interest was piqued in middle school after visiting McDonald Observatory in West Texas and watching Opportunity and Spirit land on Mars. She didn't let the lack of females in her tech-oriented high school classes deter her passion, and she applied to the Aerospace Engineering department at the University of Texas (UT). While at UT, she had internships at Johnson Space Center, SpaceX, and the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL). Now, as Flight Director at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, she applies her sense of curiosity and her problem-solving skills to the tasks at hand daily on the Perseverance Rover mission and has many stories about Oppy and Spirit's adventures to share with future space explorers and engineers.