Jordan Bimm is Assistant Instructional Professor of Science Communication and Public Discourse. He is a historian of science focused on U.S. space exploration who specializes in space medicine and astrobiology. His research investigates big questions like Who should go to space? and What happens if we discover extraterrestrial life? His work has been published in Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (HSNS) and Social Studies of Science (SSS) and popularized in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Scientific American, and WIRED. His research has won The Sacknoff Prize for Space History, the Adams Center Prize for Cold War History, the History of Science Society’s NASA Fellowship, a Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Fellowship at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, and the David Edge Prize for Social Studies of Science. His forthcoming book, Anticipating the Astronaut, examines the surprising history of pre-NASA space medicine test-subjects contributing to early visions of an ideal spacefaring body. His current project, Putting Mars in a Jar, recovers the forgotten history of U.S. Air Force life-on-Mars simulations in the 1950s. At the University of Chicago, he teaches science communication courses and directs a space science communication research unit called Capsule Communicator. He recently served as co-lead organizer for NASA’s Communicating Discoveries in the Search for Life in the Universe (CDSLU) workshop.