NASA’s response to the 9-year-old applicant for ‘alien-protection job’ is motivating!

Few days after NASA posted a job advertisement for a Planetary Protection Officer, who could protect Earth and its residents from alien invasion, a 9-year old applicant named Jack Davis applied for the job as a ‘Guardian of the Galaxy’.

He wrote to the space agency to explain, “My name is Jack Davis and I would like to apply for the planetary protection officer job. I may be nine but think I would be fit for the job. One of the reasons is my sister says I am an alien also I have seen almost all the space and alien movies I can see. I have also seen the show Marvel Agents of Shield and hope to see the movie Men in Black. I am great at video games. I am young, so I can learn to think like an Alien.”

Interestingly, Jack received a letter from Dr James L Green, the director of NASA’s planetary science division which stated:

Dear Jack,

I hear you are a ‘Guardian of the Galaxy’ and that you’re interested in being a NASA Planetary Protection Officer. That’s great!

Our Planetary Protection Officer position is really cool and is very important work. It’s about protecting Earth from tiny microbes when …read more