The First Woman On the Moon? A Conversation with Artemis Team Member Dr. Jessica Meir

#TheFirstWomanOnTheMoon #NASA #JessicaMeir NASA astronaut Jessica Meir is a member of the Artemis Team, a select group of astronauts charged with focusing on the development and training efforts for early Artemis missions.

Through the Artemis program NASA and a coalition of international partners will return to the Moon to learn how to live on other worlds for the benefit of all. With Artemis missions NASA will send the first woman and the next man to the Moon in 2024 and about once per year thereafter. Will Dr. Meir be the first woman? I certainly hope so! She is an AMAZING human being, scientist, role model, and STEM ambassador!

Through the efforts of humans and robots, we will explore more of the Moon than ever before; to lead a journey of discovery that benefits our planet with life changing science, to use the Moon and its resources as a technology testbed to go even farther and to learn how to establish and sustain a human presence far beyond Earth.

Astronaut Jessica Meir made history in October 2019 when she participated in the first all-female spacewalk. After 205 days in the isolation of space, she returned to a planet experiencing its own form of isolation – the global COVID-19 pandemic. As an astronaut and a marine biologist, Meir’s research into the impact of extreme environments has brought her to the depths of the Antarctic and the heights of space.

Meir joined me (@Dr Brian Keating), from the University of California, San Diego, her alma mater, for a conversation about these adventures and the perspectives they provide about our world.

Watch my previous interview with Jessica LIVE from the International Space Station: https://youtu.be/y0-XvFTHAtU

The event opened with a welcome from Thomas Evan Levy (Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at University of California, San Diego) (00:00) and an introduction from American Academy President David W. Oxtoby (01:48) before Jessica Meir's presentation (05:32). Meir and Brian Keating's discussion (26:33) addressed questions from the audience as well as from local San Diego students, and was followed by closing remarks from Geoffrey Myles Wahl (Professor and Daniel and Martina Lewis Chair at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies) (55:00).

Learn more: www.nasa.gov/ArtemisTeam
See Jessican's Artemis introduction video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1stIxjQV-Q

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