Life on other planets : a memoir of finding my place in the universe
As a kid, Aomawa Shields was always bumping into things, her neck craned up at the sky, dreaming of becoming an astronaut. A year into an astrophysics PhD program, plagued by self-doubt and discouraged by a white male professor who suggested that she-a young Black woman who also loved fashion, makeup, and the arts-didn't belong, she left astronomy and pursued acting professionally for a decade, before a day job working for NASA's Spitzer Space Te...
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