Date: Wed Oct 16 2024, 4:00 PM EDT - 5:00 PM EDT
- Girl
- Juniors,
- Ambassadors,
- Cadettes,
- Seniors
NASA’s First Women Virtual Classroom Connections for Grade Levels 5-12
Women are making history every day and now we are giving you the chance to meet them. This series of three events highlights a few of the women who have had a crucial impact on the STEM fields.
Meet Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, the First Female Launch Director
on October 16, 2024, at 4:00 PM EDT.
Named to the position in January 2016, Blackwell-Thompson is NASA's first female launch director. Her role includes leading and managing the launch operations planning and execution for the Exploration Ground Systems program and Exploration Systems Development Division, or ESD. Blackwell-Thompson led her team during the first launch of Artemis – an uncrewed flight test of SLS and the Orion spacecraft. She is now preparing for Artemis II, the first crewed Artemis mission.
Registration Deadline: September 30, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. ET
