{"id":1328,"date":"2022-03-02T10:08:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T10:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:37:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:37:27","slug":"women-in-space-on-the-ground-and-heading-for-the-stars-seminar-by-sue-nelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/2022\/03\/02\/women-in-space-on-the-ground-and-heading-for-the-stars-seminar-by-sue-nelson\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in Space: On the Ground and Heading for the Stars &#8211; Seminar by Sue Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>We are pleased to announce that the latest in our series of EDI Seminars will be presented by Sue Nelson in celebration of International Women\u2019s Day and will take place in person at Space Park Leicester on Tuesday 8<sup>th<\/sup> March at 11.00 am.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sue Nelson is a science journalist, broadcaster and author of Wally Funk\u2019s Race for Space. In this talk Sue celebrates some of the incredible women within the global space industry from the 1950s to today. Sue\u2019s talk will highlight engineers, programmers, mission scientists and astronauts. It will cover triumphs, challenges breakthroughs and sexism. It will make you laugh, gasp but, most of all, it will make all women proud of their contributions to the expanding and exciting area of spaceflight.\u00a0<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Venue:  Space Park Leicester, Room 0.03, 92 Corporation Road\u00a0|\u00a0Leicester\u00a0|\u00a0LE4 5SP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce that the latest in our series of EDI Seminars will be presented by Sue Nelson in celebration of International Women\u2019s Day and will take place in person at Space Park Leicester on Tuesday 8th March at 11.00 am.\u00a0 Sue Nelson is a science journalist, broadcaster and author of Wally Funk\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":256,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edi","category-seminar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1329,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions\/1329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}