AAE alumna Mar Vaquero has been featured in a Washington Post story called “How to steer a spacecraft into Saturn.”

The article discusses the billion-dollar spacecraft named Cassini, which was launched during the tenure of Bill Clinton and arrived at Saturn in the first term of George W. Bush.

Cassini has sent back spectacular images and troves of scientific data in what has been called one of NASA’s greatest missions.

Vaquero is featured in the article for her role on the Cassini spacecraft navigation team. She has done the calculations to steer Cassini into Saturn.