Growing up, Holly Ridings, Anne McClain and Nujoud Merancy dreamed of space. But they didn't let those dreams rest to become flights of childhood fancy. Now, all three women work at NASA.
Growing up, Holly Ridings, Anne McClain and Nujoud Merancy dreamed of space. But they didn't let those dreams rest to become flights of childhood fancy. Now, all three women work at NASA.
Meet NASA's first female flight director 01:51Ridings remembers watching shuttle launches in her elementary school cafeteria, but her classmates didn't seem interested. Then, the Challenger exploded, and she remembers thinking,"I want to make that better." She couldn't articulate this need at the time, but it became the backbone of her career: exploring and achieving the hard goals.
She's dreamt of being an astronaut since she was 3 02:02McClain knew that she wanted to be an astronaut at the age of 3. She looked at her mother and said as much, and her mother never discouraged her. If anyone else tried to tell McClain she couldn't be an astronaut, her mother would say that their opinion didn't matter because they didn't work at NASA. McClain also knew that she wanted to serve her country. She graduated from West Point in 2002, commissioned as an Army officer.
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