Email the author. Though she is famous for flying aboard Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS and was the third African-American woman in space, becoming an astronaut was never something Joan Higginbotham imagined growing up. Her love for technology, along with math and science, eventually led her during college to become part of the INROADS program, which since has helped high-potential women and people of color gain access to high tech jobs.
Through the program, Higginbotham earned an internship with IBM and worked as an engineer. During her time as a rocket scientist, she participated in 53 space shuttle launches. I didn't care, I don't even remember where I was. NASA wasn't something that was at the forefront of my mind. Long story short, I got my electrical engineering degree, and I was going to work for IBM because I had already worked for them before, however they weren't hiring engineers at the time.
But NASA was recruiting, and this guy called me up and was like, "Hey, do you want to come launch space shuttles in Florida? Tell me what was it was like to be in space and look back down on Earth. Does it put life into perspective? You know what? It really does. It's incredibly humbling, because you look back down on the Earth and you're like I'm this big.
It also made me realize how very fragile earth is. When you look at earth from space, you can actually see the atmosphere, which looks like it's about a millimeter thick. Obviously it's not, but you're now thinking this is the only thing that's saving us from extinction. So even if you're not a tree hugger, it makes you want to be a little bit more careful about how you treat Mother Earth.
Thirdly, it made me really realize that we are all human beings and we need to treat each other as humans, despite all the differences in what we look like and what we subscribe to. We need to treat everybody like a person. Let's chat skincare in space. Did you notice any skin changes when you left Earth? In Houston, it is very muggy and wet and my skin loved that.
Hair, not so much, but my skin loved it. However, when we got up to space and started regulating the humidity, I noticed that my skin and my face — which is usually like an oil slick — became a little drier, so I would put on moisturizer a lot more. And my body just became like the Sahara desert, so I was using a lot of Vaseline and all that.
It was very minimalist because you only have so much space, and you can only take so much stuff. It wasn't like the full glam that I did this morning. It was a cleanser, Cetaphil is what I used, and a moisturizer — that was really it for the cleansing routine. In terms of makeup, I took some foundation, blush, mascara, and lipstick. We did a plethora of media things up there, and I was like, "Yeah, I need to have my game face on [laughs].
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