Boggess went on to join NASA in 1968 after
Nancy Roman heard Boggess speak at a meeting of the
American Astronomical Society and offered Boggess a job. for the development and launch of
Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), which was able to map the entire night sky in the infrared spectrum. Boggess was the project scientist for the team that developed the
Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) which earned a Nobel Prize for
John C. Mather and
George Smoot in Physics in 2006. Under Boggess' guidance, COBE was a combination of multiple instruments that made precise measurements of the
cosmic microwave background radiation that was left over from the Big Bang. When Boggess retired, she spent time documenting the migration of birds. == Selected publications ==