PLANETARY SCIENTIST
POLITICIAN
PSYCHOLOGIST
ROCKET SCIENTIST
SCIENTIST
SEAMSTRESS
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
SPACE SCIENTIST
SPACE TOURIST
TEACHER
TEXTILE WORKER
WATCHMAKER
Gallery of Illustrators
THE ORIGINS OF SPACE TRAVEL
Adi Pashalidi Kozelj
Amy McCarthy
Ana Ríos Wang
Céleste Mueth
Lauren Hackett
THE DAWN OF THE SPACE AGE
Ehigie Aigiomawu
Eleanor Crewes
Yeni Ogunmilade
Sarah Hallam
Rosie Chomet
Jack Merton
Liam James Sproston
Emilia Bocianowska
Johanna Blaha
Huong Anh Trinh
Clarisse Hassan
Amy McCarthy
Siyakorn Kimhasawad
SPACE STATIONS AND SHUTTLES
Juliette Stuart
Miranda Smart
Ehigie Aigiomawu
Liam James Sproston
Huong Anh Trinh
Siyakorn Kimhasawad
Shana Pagano-Lohrey
Huong Anh Trinh
Johanna Blaha
Ana Ríos Wang
Eleanor Crewes
LIVING AND WORKING IN SPACE
Rosie Chomet
Wiktoria Cwiek
Nicola Reeves
Amy McCarthy
Juliette Stuart
Adi Pashalidi Kozelj
Johanna Blaha
Sarah Hallam
Liam James Sproston
Clarisse Hassan
Siyakorn Kimhasawad
Katya Koroleva
THE FUTURE OF SPACE
Wiktoria Cwiek
Sun Young Kim
Yang Yang
Eleanor Crewes
Zoe Landwehr
Emilia Bocianowska
Rosie Chomet
Jack Merton
Céleste Mueth
Katerina Demetriou-Jones
Acknowledgments
This book would not have existed were it not for the exceptional levels of support and belief of those at Penguin Random House and the UK Space Agency; Ben Brusey, Lizzy Gaisford, Katie Loughnane, Matt Goodman, Sue Horne and Diana Martin.
Berti Brigitte Meisinger, Nicole Buckley, Anita Sengupta and Kelly Latimer very graciously and generously shared their time with me; thank you very much, it was an honor to hear you share your stories.
I am indebted to all the brilliant people who offered information and suggestions in my research, particularly George Morgan, Glen Cornhill, Dallas Campbell, Kevin Fong, Gale Allen and Elizabeth Scully. Your suggestions and help have all played their part in shining the spotlight on these amazing women.
My friends and family have been magnificent, always offering encouragement and understanding through the project, even when I seemed to have vanished into hibernation.
And to Chris, for everything.
About the Author and Illustrators
LIBBY JACKSON is one of Britain’s foremost human spaceflight experts, and is the Human Spaceflight and Microgravity Program Manager for the UK Space Agency. Libby’s career working in the space industry began when she applied for work experience at NASA at age seventeen from her secondary school in Kent. Weeks later she was sitting in mission control in Houston. Ten years later, and after completing a physics degree at Imperial College, she was back working at mission control for the European Space Agency in Munich. She was an instructor, a flight controller and finally a Columbus flight director on missions to the International Space Station. From 2014 to 2016, she managed the hugely successful UK Space Agency education and outreach program that supported Tim Peake’s mission.
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The illustrators are students and graduates of the BA (Hons) Illustration and Visual Media course at the LONDON COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION (LCC), part of the University of the Arts London (UAL), which is a pioneering world leader in creative communications education, preparing students for successful creative careers. LCC courses are known for being industry-focused with students taught by an inspiring community of experienced academics, technical experts and leading specialist practitioners. Generations of award-winning photographers, filmmakers, screenwriters, journalists, broadcasters, designers and advertising and PR professionals have started their careers at LCC, and today’s graduates continue to be highly sought after and win prestigious international awards.
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Copyright
This is a work of nonfiction. It is a collection that tells the empowering stories of the lives and achievements of over fifty remarkable women. The publishers have made serious efforts to ensure that the information in this book is correct at the time of going to press but it is not to be relied on in law. If notified of any corrections, the publisher will make suitable corrections in future reprints or editions of this book.
GALAXY GIRLS. Copyright © Libby Jackson 2017. Illustrations © individual illustrators 2017 as detailed in Gallery of Illustrators. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Original design and chapter opener illustrations by Tim Barnes herechickychicky.com
Cover design by Tim Barnes and Raphael Geroni
Cover illustration by Rosie Chomet
Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Century, an imprint of Penguin Random House group of companies
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