On this week’s episode of The Astro Ben Podcast: Diversity in the Space Industry Ben welcomes special guest Loretta Whitesides, a public speaker, co-creator of Yuri's Night, and an author on space exploration. Loretta and Ben dive into her career as well as what being a woman in the space industry is really like.

0:55 Last week with Athena Brensberger

2:05 Today’s guest: Loretta Whitesides

4:30 Welcome Loretta & Crew 1 mission launch

7:15 Space launches

8:00 Loretta’s career

10:20 Space Mind Training

11:18 James Cameron Expedition- Aliens of the Deep documentary

12:25 Doctor Dijanna Figueroa

13:35 Virgin Galactic Space Tourism

14:20 What is Yuri’s Night? How did Loretta create it?

16:30 Diverse Yuri’s Night events

18:45 Getting people to study STEM & Space

22:20 Any setbacks you’ve seen others have in the space industry because of diversity?

23:10 Struggles of women in the space industry

26:15 Loretta’s predictions for the future of space

26:45 First woman on the moon

28:35 The New Right Stuff

32:45 What it will be like to be in Space

34:00 Recap of episode 5

34:55 Follow Loretta on social media

35:00 Inspiration 4 competition for ticket to Space

36:15 See you next week! Don’t forget to subscribe & follow us on social media!

Social Media

Instagram: @allspacekind

Twitter: @LorettaWhtsides

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Yuri’s night

George T. Whitesides

Virgin Galactic

Aliens of the Deep

James Cameron

NASA

Space X

Dijanna Figueroa

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