Computers were once the sign of true geekdom but now everybody is into computers at some level. Excitement about getting beyond Earth's gravity is now the defining geek characteristic.
Many people don't care or even disagree with that excitement, as the pullback after the Apollo moon landings showed. But for geeks who grew up with fiction about space travel in books, then TV and film, it is a baseline belief that going to the stars is a worthy goal.
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King's allusions to space travel expose a lasting inequality
As a leader of the civil rights movement in the late 1950s and the early 1960s, MLK often referred to the vastness of the universe, and humankind's advances in space technology as a means to reflect on the need for equality among humans here on Earth.
But as we remember his legacy today — and how he urged others to explore the "heavens" — his speeches also reveal the dire lack of diversity that continues in space science. To understand our place in the cosmos, King suggests, more diverse voices need to be heard.
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Q&A: Nicole Aunapu Mann talks moon mission, challenging barriers to diversity in space travel
Nicole Aunapu Mann M.S. '01 was selected as a member of the Artemis mission in early December, which aims to put the first woman and next man on the moon by 2024. Mann received her master of science in mechanical engineering from Stanford after attending the Naval Academy and commissioning in the U.S. Marine Corps, where she piloted an F/A-18 Hornet, a fighter and attack aircraft.
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Nicole Aunapa Mann (NAM): Growing up I had never met an astronaut and I didn't know exactly what they did. Like most kids I loved looking at the stars and pondering space exploration, but I didn't have enough exposure to realize what the possibilities were. In high school, my sophomore year, I started becoming interested in the military. I knew I wanted to go to a good school and I really liked math and science — I wanted to be an engineer. I also played soccer.
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