Watch Violeta Garcia, Ph.D., STEM Activist and founder of STEM Learning By Design, share how her family fled El Salvador to America when she was a young child and how she started her life in America without knowing any English. She is a big believer in STEM careers because they pay well and will help to solve some of the world's biggest problems of the future. She gets inspiration from a famous Mexican proverb, "they tried to bury us but they didn’t know we were seeds.”

Watch STEM Activist Violeta García share why girls should consider a career in STEM.

An astronaut is a person trained to travel and work in space. Astronauts will continue to work aboard the International Space Station (ISS), and will also fly NASA’s new Orion deep space exploration vehicle. Orion will carry the crew to space, provide emergency abort capability, sustain the crew during the space travel, and provide safe re-entry from deep space return velocities.