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Astronaut Sian Proctor believes in 'space for all' (video) [1]

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Date: 2024-05-03 21:32:15+00:00

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Sian Proctor, a geoscience professor, wrote poetry as a way to cope with the social isolation the health crisis brought.

Proctor, who has a pilot license and maintains a deep interest in space exploration, decided to record her recitation of her poem “Space to Inspire” for a NASA application to fill an open seat on a space flight.

Earlier, Procter had piloted a commercial space flight for SpaceX, but it was the poem, she says, that “won me a seat to space.”

The NASA flight gave her “orbital perspective” and a feeling of connectivity to humanity and the Earth.

Recently she became a science envoy for the U.S. Department of State, a role in which she plans to share information about the importance of protecting the Earth’s environment.

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