In 2019, women helped redefine everything we know about space

Here’s to the Katherine Johnsons, the Valentina Tereshkovas, the Nancy Romans, the Sally Rides, the Mae Jemisons. NASA astronauts Christine Koch and Jessica Meir stand with you. The Artemis program and ESA’s Mars rover stand with you. This year has been a tribute to and celebration of women and their ever-expanding roles in space exploration. Female scientists and their contributions have long been marginalized. See Hidden Figures, the story of three black women who worked as “human computers” at NASA, for a crash course on how this veiled history is still coming to light. The accomplishments of women in space in 2019 is helping to correct the course of this narrative. Read More…