How NASA Will Choose Astronauts for Its Incredible Journey to Mars

Published: Nov. 10, 2016, 8:12 a.m.

Christine Corbett Moran was in Antarctica when she got the news: NASA wanted to interview her, in person, for the next class of astronauts. Moran is a coder and theoretical astrophysicist, and she'd been holed up in the southernmost part of the world for 10 months, studying the echoes of the Big Bang.