Nine-Year-Old Applies to NASA’s ‘Planetary Protection’ Job, Agency Responds
Posted on August 6, 2017
A 9-year-old boy applied to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) “planetary protection officer” position Thursday in the hopes that he could protect Earth from aliens — and he got a response from NASA.
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