Remember Felix Baumgartner? The guy who jumped from a balloon 24 miles up? New video;

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10. She publishes constantly. I honestly don't remember whether she has

gotten publications yet out of her work on that jump, but if she has, they would have been technical stuff--having to do with medical monitoring equipment.

Her publications are not "stories" about being involved in cool events, but rather technical analyses of research. For example, she is one of the official authors--but the main actual writer--for an article based on reasearch concerning how diurnal rhythms are affected in people working at the polar research facility, and how that data might be relevant for astronauts and their abilty to perform their work without being impaired by the disruption of diurnal rhythms during long-term space missions.

But, yeah, she has her dream job, and I am thrilled for her.

She also used to be one of the doctors on hand at Kennedy in Orlando when the space shuttle took off and landed. Kid's only 32, but she is boarded in both emergency and aeorospace medicine. She did her emergency medicine residency in Orlando and aerospace med residency in Houston. She was also a Fulbright fellow, taking a graduate degree in social policy at University College in Dublin.