A 9-year-old boy answered a call from NASA to protect Earth from aliens - and got an encouraging response to his job application. "My name is Jack Davis and I would like to apply for the planetary protection officer job," the fourth-grader wrote in a letter. "I may be nine but think I would be fit for the job. VIDEO: NASA TAKING APPLICATIONS FOR PLANETARY PROTECTION OFFICERThe job advertisement for a planetary protection officer explained that space missions sometimes introduce Earth organisms into other parts of the solar system. In technical terms, the officer would assist with the "avoidance of organic-constituent and biological contamination in human and robotic space exploration."

Source: Fox News August 05, 2017 14:03 UTC