Thu Nov 19 · 7:00pm
A Reno Family Foundation Symposium - Breaking Barriers: Women in Space
Astronauts Sian Proctor and Amanda Nguyen talk about the barriers they have broken in spaceflight, moderated by astronomer Athena Brensberger (@AstroAthens), host of PBS NOVA's What the Physics?!. Proctor, a poet and artist, flew on SpaceX's Inspiration4 mission in 2021 as the first woman commercial spaceship pilot; Nguyen, the first Vietnamese and Southeast Asian woman in space, studies women's health in microgravity and wrote the memoir Saving Five.