The moon joy, it's what the Artemis II crew felt watching a solar eclipse no human eye had ever seen, drifting further from Earth than any human in history, catching the flashes of meteorites striking the lunar surface. The radiation detectors I developed were riding inside the Orion capsule with this crew, and that was my moon joy moment.
Space is breathtaking. It is also dangerous due to radiation, isolation and microgravity. Hostile by nature. But here is the strange part: Earth is quietly hostile too, but only to half the population. Because we have been shipping systems with test coverage of 50% — underrepresenting women in the data.
Join me on a voyage to the moon and back on Artemis I and Artemis II and meet Helga and Zohar, who began filling that data gap along with Christina Koch.
Sending the first woman around the Moon was a giant leap. But the ultimate moonshot is this one: sending women on a mission into every science lab and every room that matters, until the gap is gone and the tests and data finally represent us all.
- Inspiration
- Space
