Summer 2017
Space Cougs
Since the 1960s, engineers, biologists, and even historians who graduated from Washington State have contributed to the exploration of our solar system. You can read about a few of them below. If you know of other Cougs who have been involved in space exploration, please send their stories and we’ll include them here.
Thora Waters Halstead ’50
Space biologist
Microbiologist Thora Waters Halstead pioneered the field of space biology and her research now is a critical piece of NASA’s plans to send astronauts to Mars.
Waters, who earned her undergraduate degree at Washington State University in 1950, was a trailblazer at NASA … » More …