LPL congratulates recent PTYS graduate Michelle Thompson, who advanced to a pool of 32 candidates in the running to be one of two new astronauts with the Canadian Space Agency.

Also, images from a paper on which Michelle was the senior author appeared on the cover of the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science for the March 2017 issue.

Michelle defended her dissertation in May 2016 and is currently a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow (RA) at Johnson Space Center.