John Glenn would have turned 100 on July 18, 2021. Today’s space program is a giant leap more inclusive than when he made his pioneering orbit of the Earth in 1962.
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NASA scientist Katherine Johnson was instrumental in getting people to the moon. Here are some of the lessons one mathematics professor believes she taught us all.
The pioneering African-American “computer” has died aged 101.
NASA has made significant steps in making explicit appeals to women to support space exploration, but it might not be doing enough to gather needed political support.
Until La La Land can star two actors of colour or two women in the leading roles, Hollywood will have a diversity problem.
Letters from would-be girl astronauts in the 1960s tell part of the complicated story of sexism – in both NASA and the US at large – at the dawn of the space age.
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Associate Professor of Critical Media Practices and Digital Humanities, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences, The Open University
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Professor of Mathematics, University of Richmond
