Growing up in Tennessee and Alabama, Dr. David Oh never imagined he would one day be leading a mission to explore a metallic asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. But as project systems engineer for NASA's Psyche mission and former lead flight director for the Curiousity Mars rover, Dr. Oh has done plenty of extraterrestrial exploring.
Listen to this episode to learn more about these missions, how Dr. Oh sees his Korean-American identity, and what it's like to put your whole family on Mars time.
This is the first of our interviews with the three Korean American Day honorees for 2017, all of whom are doing awesome things in the fields of science and technology. Below are some of our previous Korean Kontext interviews with Korean American Day honorees.
Korean American Day 2016: Chef Edward Lee
Korean American Day 2015: Olympic Skier Toby Dawson
Actor Daniel Dae Kim
North Korea's "Guerrilla Internationalism"
American Eggs-ports to South Korea
Keeping North Korean Human Rights in the Conversation
Korea's Role in Regional Financial Cooperation
The Debate over Video Game Addiction
Creating Consensus on KORUS
[Rebroadcast] How to Write About North Korea
[Rebroadcast] Behind the Scenes of South Korea’s Space Program
[Rebroadcast] Kevin O’Donnell: National Director of Peace Corps
Keeping up with North Korea
Korean Study Abroad on the Decline?
Should the U.S. be concerned about Chinese-North Korean relations?
Learning Korean and Supporting Seniors: SAY's Two in One Model of Teaching
Colonel Edward Forney and the Hungnam Evacuation
A Discussion with Charlie Rangel, Former Congressman and Korean War Veteran
Going Together to the Twenty-First Century: U.S.-Korea Cooperation on Science and Technology
How do American News Outlets Cover Korea?
Prepping for PyeongChang: Looking Ahead to the Winter 2018 Olympics
Visit Korea: American Tourism to South Korea on the Rise
Discussion with North Korean Defectors
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