PHOTO: NASA Johnson Space Center
BECOMING: This week, NASA Johnson Space Center and recording star Grace Potter released a new, collaborative space-themed music video. Filmed at at the space center, it features Potter performing her song, “Look What We’ve Become,”highlighting NASA women engineers, scientists and astronauts at work.
Per a NASA press release, “So much of this song is about when you are coming up through any part of your life and you face challenges, there are so many different ways that that can affect you and change the course of your life,” said Grace Potter. “I think that it creates a strength within you if you do make the choice to push onward and say, ‘I know that this might be more difficult than another path. That’s why I want to do it.”
The press release says NASA’s goal with the video is "to inspire young women everywhere to plot a course for a career in science, technology, engineering and math, and then stay on that trajectory, no matter the challenges, and become a part of something historic."
GET OUT THE VOTE: The United States has a presidential election coming up this November, and if the lone American on the International Space Station can cast her vote, for sure you should be able to find a way to do likewise. :)
Above, NASA astronaut Kate Rubins is pictured. She doesn’t know yet whether she’ll return to Earth in late October as planned, ahead of the election. Fact of the matter is, the Russians have delayed the next crew launch for technical reasons. It was supposed to take place this Friday, but it has been postponed for at least a month.
And Rubins and her crewmates — a Russian and a Japanese crewmember — can’t come home until the next three-person crew arrives.
Knowing that sometimes things change, Rubins got an absentee ballot before she rocketed away in July, just in case. The Houston, Texas, resident will list her address as “low-Earth orbit” if she's not back in the Lone Star State in time to vote.
BTW, Rubins, 37, is a professional virus hunter by profession. Last month she became the first person to perform full-blown DNA decoding, or sequencing, in space.
ANNABELLE, FOR THE RECORD: Last summer, Annabelle was fortunate enough to be a part of a "Cool Girls in Aerospace" program. The week-long experience in Everett and Mukilteo exposed young women to STEM-related career paths and opportunities they might not otherwise know about.
In this week's Mukilteo Beacon, in a column by Mukilteo mayor Jennifer Gregerson, Annabelle was quoted regarding her experience in the program. In part, she said, “It was a terrific opportunity to see and do things most girls my age don’t get a chance to experience,” said sixth grader Annabelle Kisky, one of the participants. “It certainly opened my eyes to a world of possibilities.”
You can read the story here: http://mukilteobeacon.villagesoup.com/p/inspiring-girls-to-follow-their-dreams-mayors-message/1576331
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