Barbara Cohen head shot

Barbara Cohen

Planetary Scientist, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

Barbara Cohen is interested in the geochronology and geochemistry of planetary samples from the Moon, Mars, and asteroids. She is a principal investigator on multiple NASA research projects, a member of the Mars Exploration Rover mission team still operating Opportunity, and the principal investigator for Lunar Flashlight, a lunar CubeSat mission that will be launched in 2018 as a Space Launch System secondary payload. Asteroid 6186 Barbcohen is named for her.