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Article: The Women who Power NASA’s New Horizons Mission to Pluto

Click here to meet the women behind NASA’s Pluto flyby, a mission with one of the most women in NASA history!

The dozens of women who are powering New Horizons to a history-making July 14 flyby of Pluto look forward to the day when the conversation about gender becomes irrelevant. “Girls will be inspired to be scientists and boys will grow up to be ‘gender blind,’ seeing women in science as the norm,” says Young.

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