The Australian Space Agency's director of space technology will head to Germany next month to become the first woman to be trained as an astronaut under the Australian flag.
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.Katherine Bennell-Pegg hopes to inspire other girls and women to show an interest in STEM careers.abc.net.au/news/first-woman-to-train-as-astronaut-under-australian-flag/102069080Katherine Bennell-Pegg will head to Germany next month to become the first woman to be trained as an astronaut under the Australian flag.
"I'm really excited to use this opportunity to hopefully elevate the conversation around women in STEM."Ms Bennell-Pegg said she had had a passion for space since childhood. "As you do when you're a child, you have a stubborn urge for adventure, and I was drawn to that adventure."However, due to a lack of female representation in the field, she had to forge her own path."When I was a kid, there was no space agency, let alone a path to being part of a space sector in Australia.
"I signed up to engineering at university without knowing what engineering was. I did it because it had space in the title and I loved space."She hoped her new position would break new ground women hoping to work in the industry. "I think it's anticlimactic but beautiful that they don't question that that's unusual, [and] that for them, anything is possible."
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