Watch astronaut Leland Melvin and Bill Nye discuss racial injustice and space exploration
Watch astronaut Leland Melvin and Bill Nye discuss racial injustice and space exploration
By Mary Beth Griggs
Planetary
June 12, 2020 at 04:42PM
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By Mary Beth Griggs
Planetary
Leland Melvin never thought he would be a NASA astronaut when he was growing up in Lynchburg, Virginia. “I didn’t think about becoming an astronaut because I didn’t see someone that looked like me,” Melvin says.
Melvin, now a former NASA astronaut and a prominent figure in the space industry, recently recorded a conversation with Bill Nye, the CEO of the space science non-profit, The Planetary Society. For more than an hour, the two men had a wide-ranging discussion of space exploration, and the lasting impact of racism in this country.
Though both men are now beloved science educators, Melvin’s experiences growing up as a black person in Lynchburg were vastly...
June 12, 2020 at 04:42PM
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