Alexandra "Alex" Petrova

Alexandra "Alex" Petrova played by Kristen Hughes

Parents are Russians who moved to the US and tried to immerse themselves in the American culture. Alex is an expert in engineering who originally wanted to work for NASA. Due to an arrest for car theft her chances of working for NASA were nixed. Of her own initiative she continued to send climate models of Mars to NASA hoping to attract their attention. Instead she attracted the attention of the Morrow Project who recruited and froze her as part of Science Team.