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We need less Lori and more Iranian women.


>Garver was born in Lansing, Michigan on May 22, 1961, and she graduated from Haslett High School in Haslett, Michigan in 1979. In 1983, she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and economics from Colorado College. While working for Senator John Glenn from 1983–1984 she became interested in space, and went on to earn a Master of Arts degree in science, technology and public policy from the George Washington University in 1989

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anousheh_Ansari

>Anousheh Ansari (Persian: انوشه انصاری; née Raissyan;[2] born September 12, 1966) is an Iranian American engineer and co-founder and chairwoman of Prodea Systems. Her previous business accomplishments include serving as co-founder and CEO of Telecom Technologies, Inc. (TTI). The Ansari family is also the title sponsor of the Ansari X Prize. On September 18, 2006, a few days after her 40th birthday, she became the first Iranian and first female Muslim in space.[3] Ansari was the fourth overall self-funded space tourist, and the first self-funded woman to fly to the International Space Station. Her memoir, My Dream of Stars, co-written with Homer Hickam, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2010.[4]

>She is the CEO of the X Prize Foundation.[5]

Kids aren't excited about Mars because of NASA, they're excited because of SpaceX because they see themselves going to mars not because of NASA but because of SpaceX.

This woman was Obama's NASA director pick.

This woman here was the former deputy director of NASA during the Obama years. Look at how she says "Boys and their toys" as if SpaceX is the equivalent of a sports car or bass boat for Musk. That's what NASA's leadership is going to be like during Biden years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lori_Garver