Welcome to the Space Store Podcast, you're listening to our Space Talk Special Episode, Accessing Space - Exploring Inclusion in the Space Industry.

Accessing Space is Space Store’s latest initiative to show how space is for everyone, showcasing and celebrating the contributions, stories & achievements of iconic people, across many different ethnicities, backgrounds and minority groups in the Space Sector. Our goal is to discuss how we can collectively use space to empower, embolden and inspire people from diverse backgrounds in space, including those from underrepresented and marginalized communities.

This is a recording of our first ever live panel event of Accessing Space, How Black Lives Impact Space Exploration, with:

The First Woman & First African American CEE Crew Chief, Sharon Caples-McDougle;

Senior Project Leader at The Aerospace Corporation, Justin McNeill;

Community Outreach Organiser, Lucy Njuguna; and

Avionics System Engineer at Boeing, Emmanuell Murray.

We discuss their inspirations, passions, and experiences to give insight, learnings and advice on how we can be successful in the search for the next-generation of successful space explorers; and hear stories told by these incredible black men and women who have contributed in the quest for space exploration in the past, and plan to do so in the future.

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