And fought to integrate the teams behind the space program, women who excelled, paving a path building a ladder for the women we you to nasas modern figures. Dr. P ank tatpatel is can the n program and a professor with the Engineering Department at catholic engineer and dr. Crystal johnson. Lakisha hawkins is an Aerospace Engineer and a Propulsion Team lead at nasa. Welcome, all of you. You. Thank y for having us. I know you saw the movie. Yes, yes. What do you think of it . Loved it. Loved it. Was it accurate . It was close. I mean there were quite a few liberties that were taken in terms of some of the details, but the concept behind the unity that we have at nasa and the Challenging Mission that we have was right on point. And are you sured got, ms. Hawkins . Oh, im so excited about that. There are people that you would never think that would get excited about space and Space Exploration and women that i know who are talking about it and asking me about what i do because of the movi
Tonight, thank you. You are watching booktv, television for serious readers. You can watch any program you see your online at booktv. Org. National geographic, mars up close has been written by marc kaufman. What is your background to write about Space Exploration . My background is as a journalist long time and not as a science journalist. I was a Foreign Correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer and the washington post. What i learned was being in Foreign Countries is a good way of learning to speak to scientists. They are talking a different language, different culture, you spend time with them and work it out and you come up with some fascinating things. Of phoenix what was curiosity . The rover on mars. It is searching for ebola environments on mars and it found them. They found for the First Time Ever that life might have existed, could have existed on mars. My goal in this was to embed myself, jet Propulsion Team and i did for a year and half, kind of watched up close what the
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