Anima Patil is a part of NASA where she works as a scientist – astronaut.
The Great lady has all the skills to work as NASA girls mentor, artist, NASA Astronaut aspirant from a performer and dancer. Anima Patil completed her education from San Jose State University in aerospace engineering. She also holds MS computer application and BS physics degree from North Maharashtra University. The schooling is completed from Saint Joseph’s Convent High School, Jalgaon, India. Working as an astronaut had always been a childhood dream for Anima.
She dug the best aeronautics opportunities through her studentship. According to her, she has achieved everything quite late. She was passionate about Aeronautics right from her childhood. Her love for long duration space flights, human space exploration and human factors involved in space flight has always been at par.
It all began when she was mere 7 years old. While reading a book in school she came across pictures of Russian and USA spacecraft’s, Apollo astronauts and astronaut lying on their back. On that very day, she decided to become an astronaut herself. She knew it well that her dream was not so easy. Despite having no clue about the journey, Anima kept on working to make her dream come true. She faced criticism and taunts but remain unaffected in her determination.
Anima did not give up and was always hopeful that things would change by the time she would become a graduate. The fighter pilot application particularly required graduates in physics or engineering. Her dad was reluctant to send her out of town for pursuing BTech. Finally, she chose to pursue bachelor degree in physics. Fortunately, she loved physics and astronomy equally. She completed her bachelor’s project on the same and qualified with distinction. She applied for the fighter pilot application and did not expect rejection. Unfortunately she was not selected because of her short sightedness. It made her felt that everything was over. But that was literally not the end.
Before joining NASA, Anima worked as a part of science operation center. She was appointed as senior principal software engineer and it was fun for her to work in a team that often found planets in our Galaxy.
Later on, she became commander HERA at NASA Johnson Space Centre in 2015, June.
Anima is passionate about human space exploration, long-duration spaceflight. Anima is also a recent graduate of the Project PoSSUM suborbital scientist-astronaut training program. Anima pursues her motto to Inspire, Guide and Motivate the younger generation and provide them the direction she missed out on while growing up.
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