Change the Equation – Staff Writer
“The biggest story in STEM this year (so far) was yesterday’s New Horizons Pluto Flyby — and boy was it a doozie! In case you missed it, the New Horizons spacecraft came within 7,800 miles of the erstwhile planet after traveling nine years and 3 billion miles from earth…What’s equally exciting about the mission is that it was led by Mission Operations Manager (MOM) Alice Bowman — the first woman to hold such a role. And Bowman wasn’t the lone woman on the team, either. In fact, the New Horizons team is made up of nearly 25 percent women…”(more)