Belfast mathematician working towards her astronaut dream
Maths might be an alien language for some people - but a Belfast woman is hoping it will be her ticket to the stars.The 29-year-old is hoping her ability with numbers will add up to her one day becoming an astronaut.
The former student of Sullivan Upper School in Holywood, County Down, works in the planetary system branch of Nasa looking at planets outside of our solar system. "The role was right up my alley and I just had to convince them that I had the mathematical capabilities to do what they wanted." "That is the ultimate question, could there be other forms of life in the universe? But the forms of life people are thinking of aren't little green men with four eyes, it's more than likely microbes or bacteria," she said.Dr Rooney has recently applied for the ESA Astronaut Corps - a programme to select and train European astronauts for space missions.
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