I enjoyed the talk ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti gave at Focus Live 2025, a science outreach event at the science and technology museum in Milan, Italy. Here are my photos.
Alex, the Hearth Fire
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Happy birthday to Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) a physician who became the first Black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour for NASA, on September 12, 1992! She also has a B.S. in chemical engineering, served in the Peace Corps, is a dancer and choreographer, formed and runs her own company researching the application of technology to daily life, and even 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #sciArt #astronaut #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci
Happy birthday to Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) a physician who became the first Black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour for NASA, on September 12, 1992! She also has a B.S. in chemical engineering, served in the Peace Corps, is a dancer and choreographer, formed and runs her own company researching the application of technology to daily life, and even 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #sciArt #astronaut #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci
NASA's newly announced #astronaut class of six women and four men includes an engineer who has already flown in orbit on a privately backed mission and a geologist who worked on Mars rover missions. https://www.geekwire.com/2025/nasa-astronauts-geologist-lauren-edgar/ #Space #NASA
