Growing up in the Australian surf town of Torquay, Beth Jens is now a rocket scientist at NASA's world-famous Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Los Angeles. We chatted about Beth's inspiring childhood encounter with an Apollo astronaut, her journey from Melbourne University to Stanford as a Fulbright and Rotary scholar, and her exciting work today on the future of space exploration.© Australian Consulate-General Los Angeles, 2017Music: 'RSPN', (c) Blank & Kytt, March 2012 (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blank__Kytt/Heavy_Crazy_Serious/)