A woman right at the very top
24 November 2011 in Interesting stuff
It’s great to read pieces like this one, in the FT’s Women at the Top blog (which is consistently interesting). Heather Rarick is a flight director who works in Mission Control for the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. She has led international space station expeditions and space shuttle missions.
“How we talk about engineering isn’t necessarily how things are,” she says. “When you think of engineer, you think of an old man sitting at a desk number-crunching or building software. But so much of engineering is about helping to solve problems – problems in transportation, or the medical arena. The messaging isn’t there yet.”
