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On Inspiration4 mission, a poet champions diversity in space
David Clark Scott
Gil Scott-Heron鈥檚 鈥溾�� was a searing spoken-word indictment of inequality in 1970 (the year after Neil Armstrong made his famous lunar stroll). There鈥檚 been progress, but spaceflight has been
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, Sian Proctor expects to join three others in the first all-civilian crew in space 鈥� no professional astronauts on board. Unlike the Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic suborbital tourist jaunts of a few minutes in July, this private SpaceX flight plans to orbit the Earth for three days. Tech billionaire Jared Isaacman is footing the bill.
Ms. Proctor is a private pilot, geoscientist, teacher, and poet. She鈥檚 also going to聽be the first Black, female pilot of a spacecraft 鈥� a responsibility she doesn鈥檛 take lightly. 鈥淚f we slip, then 鈥� people will say you were never qualified. They鈥檒l compare you to ,鈥� she tells Miriam Kramer in the podcast 鈥淗ow It Happened.鈥� But she adds, 鈥淚 feel like I鈥檓 up to the task.鈥澛�
Ms. Proctor often talks about the 鈥淛.E.D.I.,鈥� not the Star Wars kind, but the goal of a聽. One of her crewmates is Hayley Arceneaux, a physician assistant, who will be the first astronaut with a prosthesis and, at 29, the youngest American in orbit.聽
What does inclusive space travel look like? The crew of the Inspiration4 mission offers us a glimpse.
