title: Interview with Penelope Boston, Director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute.
authors.affiliation: 1 Editor-in-Chief of Astrobiology.|2 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory-EMSL , Richland, Washington.
authors.forename: Sherry L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Cady
authors.affiliation: 3 NASA Astrobiology Institute, NASA Ames Research Center , Moffett Field, California.
authors.forename: Penelope
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Boston
mesh_terms: D018559:Exobiology / Q000193:education / Q000639:trends*; D013026:Space Flight