Welcome to The SciComm Space
The career hub and guide for science communicators breaking into, pivoting within, and scaling their careers in the space industry.
Breaking into the space sector as a communicator can feel like trying to calculate an orbital insertion by hand. The roles are highly specialized, the jargon is dense, and the path inside is rarely linear.
The SciComm Space is here to act as your mission control, guiding you through your space career. This platform is designed to help you build the skills, gather the intelligence, and make the professional connections required to land your dream role in aerospace communications.
Trajectory Maneuvers
A flight path is the prescribed route a moving object, like a spacecraft, follows as time passes. A trajectory maneuver is sometimes needed to course correctand achieve the intended destination. This biweekly job-roundup newsletter, Trajectory Maneuvers, is a collection of resources to help you adjust your career path to achieve your intended place in the space industry. Ad astra!
This resource is freely available.
Cleared for Launch
Go beyond the polished press release to explore the messy, honest process of bringing space stories to life. This section features personal essays, industry observations, and raw, “making-of” insights documenting the creative journey from a spark of an idea to a successful public campaign.
The Scicomm Space Chat
Our community hub. This space is designed for exchanging real-time insights, portfolio review swaps, accountability check-ins, and microstories about the day-to-day realities of working in aerospace.
This resource is currently available for free, but only for subscribers.
Meet Andrea Lloyd
Andrea Lloyd is a science communications specialist based at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. She is on contract with Barrios Technology to provide communications and outreach services to programs at NASA.
Prior to this role, she shared the wonders of low-Earth orbit with the world via social media and digital articles for the International Space Station Research Integration Office, including coordinating the historic first live Twitch stream from space. She is based at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
Before joining NASA, she worked with social media and communications contracts for Landsat with the U.S. Geological Survey and interned several times with NASA Langley Research Center. She has been involved in the space industry for over seven years.
Andrea received her M.A. in Science Writing from Johns Hopkins University where she focused on stories connecting space to humans and her M.A. in Advertising from the University of Texas at Austin where she researched the 50-year history of NASA's human spaceflight public relations efforts, and her B.S. in Media Studies with emphasis in strategic communication and professional writing from Texas A&M University. When she’s not talking with people about space, Andrea enjoys knitting, photography, and walking her dog, Titan.
