Homegrown NASA scientist wants Australia in the space race

By Cameron Atfield
Updated August 5 2015 - 10:08am, first published July 30 2015 - 3:45pm
Australian NASA astrobiologist Abigail Allwood, pictured at her alma mater QUT, wants Australia to invest more into space exploration. Photo: Michelle Smith
Australian NASA astrobiologist Abigail Allwood, pictured at her alma mater QUT, wants Australia to invest more into space exploration. Photo: Michelle Smith

The Brisbane astrobiologist at the forefront of NASA's next mission to Mars has one regret in her stellar career – that she could not lead the charge to discover evidence of extraterrestrial life from her own country.

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