{"646404":{"#nid":"646404","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"NASA\/JPL Named Two Sites on Mars After an Author and an Engineer. Here\u2019s Why You Should Know Them, Too","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELisa Yaszek, Regents Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was quoted in the article \u0026quot;NASA\/JPL Named Two Sites on Mars After an Author and an Engineer. Here\u0026rsquo;s Why You Should Know Them, Too,\u0026quot; published April 10, 2021 in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EUSA Today\u003C\/em\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe article explores the decision of a team at NASA\u0026#39;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to name the landing site of the Perseverance Mars rover after Octavia Butler, a groundbreaking science fiction author. Yaszek, one of the nation\u0026#39;s leading science fiction scholars, spoke to Butler\u0026#39;s stature in the field.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EScience fiction aficionados \u0026mdash; readers, college professors and publishers \u0026mdash;\u0026nbsp;hold Butler in high regard.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;She\u0026#39;s important because she\u0026#39;s a pioneer and the first Black female science fiction author,\u0026quot; says Lisa Yaszek, Regents professor of science fiction studies in the School of Literature, Media and Communication at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EButler rose to prominence in the traditionally white bastion of science fiction. She was the first to write about prominent Black characters in science fiction settings, using dystopias, time travel and other tropes.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;She was literally one of the first, if not the first, Black women to publish in modern science fiction magazines under her own name,\u0026quot; Yaszek says.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/in-depth\/graphics\/2021\/04\/10\/mars-rover-perseverance-helicopter-ingenuity-octavia-butler-jakob-van-zyl-nasa-jpl-caltech\/7085217002\/\u0022\u003EFull article.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35266","created_gmt":"2021-04-12 20:24:36","changed_gmt":"2021-04-12 20:24:36","author":"ifrazer3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"sustainable fuels","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/in-depth\/graphics\/2021\/04\/10\/mars-rover-perseverance-helicopter-ingenuity-octavia-butler-jakob-van-zyl-nasa-jpl-caltech\/7085217002\/","dateline":{"date":"2021-04-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-04-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"628451":{"id":"628451","type":"image","title":"Lisa Yaszek","body":null,"created":"1572548549","gmt_created":"2019-10-31 19:02:29","changed":"1572552353","gmt_changed":"2019-10-31 20:05:53","alt":"","file":{"fid":"239346","name":"Lisa Yaszek 740Xx scale.small_.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Lisa%20Yaszek%20740Xx%20scale.small__0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Lisa%20Yaszek%20740Xx%20scale.small__0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":91906,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Lisa%20Yaszek%20740Xx%20scale.small__0.jpg?itok=GyMYIA8Y"}}},"media_ids":["628451"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1616","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"167943","name":"School of Literature Media and Communication"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}