{"673842":{"#nid":"673842","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Celebrating Women in Aerospace Engineering","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EOn a \u003Cem\u003Every\u003C\/em\u003E long-distance call, students from Georgia Tech and an Atlanta elementary school wanted to know how two women floating 220 miles above the Earth\u2019s surface got there.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ENot in the sense of strapping into a capsule atop a rocket, but rather how their passions and careers led them to be NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAfter all, it\u2019s not every day you can gather a little bit of career advice from an actual space traveler.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cFind out what you really enjoy doing and pursue that thing,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/people\/tracy-caldwell-dyson-2\/\u0022\u003ETracy Dyson\u003C\/a\u003E, who arrived this week for her second stint aboard the space station. \u201cI think about my own upbringing, and my parents never told me or my sister that there was anything we couldn\u0027t do or that girls didn\u0027t normally do. My parents just let us do the things that we enjoyed doing. So I think what I would say more is to the parents than to the kids: If they show an interest in something, help open the door and pave the way. And let\u0027s see what they can do.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ETruthfully, the audience also asked about the physical journey to space along with the metaphorical one. They wanted to know about the food and life in orbit. And they asked about the science that\u2019s keeping the 10 astronauts currently aboard the space station busy.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe conversation with Dyson and crewmate \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/people\/jeanette-j-epps\/\u0022\u003EJeannette Epps\u003C\/a\u003E was just part of a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ae.gatech.edu\/event\/2024\/03\/28\/celebrating-women-aerospace-engineering\u0022\u003Eday-long celebration\u003C\/a\u003E of women in aerospace hosted by the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/wie.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EWomen in Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (WIE) program and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EDaniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (AE).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ae.gatech.edu\/event\/2024\/03\/28\/celebrating-women-aerospace-engineering\u0022\u003EMarch 28 event\u003C\/a\u003E gathered Georgia Tech students and approximately 50 Atlanta-area elementary school students to celebrate and explore the journey of women in AE research, education, and industry.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2024\/03\/celebrating-women-aerospace-engineering\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGet the full story on the College of Engineering website.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ECall with women astronauts in space, industry panel, Marilyn Smith celebration highlight a day honoring the journey of women in AE.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Call with women astronauts in space, industry panel, Marilyn Smith celebration highlight a day honoring the journey of women in AE."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2024-03-29 15:13:57","changed_gmt":"2024-03-29 15:17:31","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-03-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-03-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"673554":{"id":"673554","type":"image","title":"Women-in-AE-Astronaut-Call-t.jpg","body":"\u003Cp\u003EWomen in Engineering Director listens to NASA astronauts Jeannette Epps and Tracy Dyson during a live call from the International Space Station. 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