LONNIE PETERSEN
Lonnie Petersen is a doctor and a scientist who works to keep astronauts safe and healthy. But there’s a bit of the astronaut in Petersen too.
“There are quite a few experiments I would like to do in space, and it would be easy if I could be my own test subject!” she says. But she has no plans to change careers because she enjoys her jobs here on Earth at the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her special area of interest includes examining what happens
