Last month, Dr. Sian Proctor—a 51-year-old geoscientist, community college professor and artist—became the first Black woman to pilot a spacecraft and the fourth Black American woman to go to space.
Proctor’s focus on empowering women and girls of color to achieve their dreams is invigorating a new generation of Americans at the dawn of a new space age that’s opening to more and more people. to surround themselves with friends who bring out the best in themWhen offering career advice, she suggests choosing a question to answer or problem to solve rather than focusing too much on a specific career track.
“It’s not about becoming a geologist or an engineer,” she said. “Become the kind of creative person that can solve problems because you have a wide-ranging toolkit to pull from. And surround yourself with people who bring different skills to help address that problem.”“Being a female in my 50s, there were times I felt the best years of my life had passed me by,” she said. “But the dreams of your childhood, the goals you maybe weren’t able to achieve as a young adult.
As launch day loomed, Proctor felt the weight of the hopes and dreams she carried for people of color, especially Black women.After splashdown, Proctor emerged from the capsule triumphant, with a wide, effortless smile.becoming.”Proctor embodies the advances women of color continue to make in the sciences and beyond—but the story doesn’t end there for this newly winged commercial astronaut.
“Having achieved the pinnacle of my life’s goals, I’m now in a position to inspire others,” she said, “which is just as important.”,” which follows the crew along their inspiring journey, is streaming now.
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