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Investors are ‘very excited’ now about being part of the space industry: Former NASA astronaut – Yahoo Finance Australia

The first Hispanic woman to fly to space says we’ve made progress in encouraging women and minorities to enter the sciences, but more needs to be done.

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The first Hispanic woman to go to space says weve made progress in encouraging women and minorities to enter the sciences, but more needs to be done.
I think it’s still that in our culture, if you ask somebody to picture a scientist or an engineer, overwhelmingly that picture still looks like a white man, Dr. Ellen Ochoa told Yahoo Finance Presents: Hispanic Stars.
Right from the get go, I think girls, and Latinas in particular, just aren’t picturing themselves doing that from a young age, sai…

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