Space Girls Space Women @ Musée des arts et métiers

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Space Girls Space Women @ Musée des arts et métiers

June 6th, 2015 by fstop

PARANAL OBSERVATORY – ESO
ATACAMA DESERT, CHILE / CHILI

Space Girls Space Women
18 June – 1 November 2015

This photographic investigation depicts three generations of women around the world involved in various ways in space exploration.
Many 10-18 year-old girls around the world dream of becoming astronomers, designing rockets or being the first to land on Mars. Our reporters followed some of them to space camps in the US and Turkey as well as in Biscarosse (France) during a homemade rocket launch day. A new generation of female students is getting ready for the challenges of the twenty-first century space adventure. In Toronto, Zainab, an 11 year-old schoolgirl already has her ticket to travel in space with Virgin Galactic. Young women such as Anita Vuya in Kenya, Fatoumata Kebe and Camille Dijoux in France have decided to study spatial engineering. Around the globe, women are working on European and international space programs (Herschel and Planck mission, Rosetta, International Space Station, Galileo, Ariane 5…). Whether they are astronauts, engineers, or project managers for satellites, they are on the front line of scientific research on space.

Musée des arts et métiers
60 rue Réaumur, Paris

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