Sian Proctor, the first African American woman to pilot a spacecraft: ‘The reality is that solving for space solves for Earth’ @DrSianProctor made history in September as a member of the first all-civilian orbital spaceflight, SpaceX’s Inspiration4 mission
By: KK Ottesen @kkOttesen This interview has been edited and condensed.
The Washington Post.
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