The women of New Horizons' Pluto flyby | Human World | EarthSky

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Women make up 25 percent of the New Horizons flyby team. Science team leader Fran Bagenal said, “This isn’t remarkable – it’s just how it is.”

At 7:49 AM EDT on Tuesday, July 14 New Horizons zips past Pluto at 30,800 miles per hour (49,600 kilometers per hour), with a suite of seven science instruments busily gathering data. Fran Baganel is the particles and plasma science team leader on the New Horizons mission.

Bagenal began her career working on NASA’s Voyager mission to the outer planets, she was among just a handful of women on the team. But that didn’t phase her. She was focused on particles and plasma. Bagenal said:

That’s just how it was… Space physics was just my way of exploring the solar system.

Now, as the particles and plasma science team leader on the New Horizons mission to Pluto, her response to the relative abundance of women on the team is met mostly with a shrug.

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Bagenal’s attitude regarding the strong female presence on the New Horizons mission is mostly echoed by colleagues who were informally surveyed. Kim Ennico is a deputy project scientist on New Horizons who calibrates instruments on the spacecraft and monitors their status. ...

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[Gloria]

1. I loved seeing all the women on the PBS show last night (NOVA)

esp. MOM!!!!!!

[Duppers]

3. Your mom...

Wow! Share details.

I know there's a DUer who works at STSCI but I've forgotten her handle. (I personally know another gal there.)

[Gloria]

5. NOT my Mom! The woman who runs the place in some capacity is called "mom"

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She delivers the project info to the scientists ...she was on camera with comments throughout the program. I think she has s big job so what I said is really not the full info...

[shireen]

6. New Horizons is run out of JHU APL

not STScI. BTW, I'm at STScI.

[Duppers]

8. Hi, Shireen,

I, more than most, should have known better for 2 big reasons.

[longship]

7. MOM == Mission Operations Manager.

MOM of the MOC. MOC == Mission Operations Center.

Think of Gene Kranz during Apollo and you will get the idea.

[awoke_in_2003]

2. Science is my granddaughter's favorite subject

She has one more year of middle school, and I try to do things to encourage that.

[gcomeau]

4. Wow...

...with that many women working on the project it's amazing it got done at all, what with all the crying and the male scientists falling in love with them all the time.

[shireen]

9. LOL!

I remember that ... genius responses.