West Texas Space Pioneer: Breaking Boundaries at NASA

As a sixth grader in Amarillo, TX, Holly Ridings watched the Challenger accident with her classmates. Her twelve-year-old response as she processed the tragedy was, “I want to fix that.” Ridings has been solving problems and breaking boundaries ever since. Please join an authentic, relatable, and intimate chat with NASA’s first female chief flight director and current deputy program manager for the space agency's Gateway Program, the international collaboration building humanity’s first space station to orbit the Moon as part of the Artemis campaign.

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Format: Solo
Type: Session
Focus Area: Higher Education