Valerie Casasanto, Program Coordinator

GEST Research Group:

Administrative Staff

GSFC Code:

610.6

Mailing Address:

Building 22, Room 168
NASA GSFC, Code 610.6
Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

Phone:

(301) 286-6605

Fax:

(301) 286-0574

Email:

Valerie.A.Casasanto@nasa.gov

Research Interests:

Microgravity experiments, student space education and outreach, marine mammal conservation and Earth Sciences.

Biography:

Valerie Casasanto received her Bachelor of Arts from Penn State University in 1988. In 1989, Valerie interned at Novespace in Paris, France, in commercial space and technology transfer marketing. In 1993, she attended the International Space University. Valerie has worked in the space field for more than 20 years. During her career, she developed hands-on student experiments in the space program and integrated student and science microgravity payloads on 14 space missions including the Space Shuttle (STS-37, -43,-52,-56,-95,-107), sounding rockets, Mir and ISS. Valerie comes to us from ITA, Inc., a commercial space hardware and engineering firm, where a biomedical and student payload (CIBX-2), was flown and recovered from the Space Shuttle Columbia, STS-107. She is a former employee of the International Space University (ISU) based in Strasbourg, France, where she organized the ISU Summer Programs in a different host country each year. Valerie has published and presented more than 12 papers on space education and microgravity experiments. She is also a former teacher and has volunteered for a variety of space education initiatives. Valerie is currently a member of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) Space Education and Outreach Committee. Valerie began working for GEST and JCET at NASA Goddard in November 2005.