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From Athena to Artemis: About

About the Project

As a current woman in STEM, I feel the need to rightly credit those who have come before me. During the fall semester of 2018, I was enrolled in an honors class here at Walsh University titled, Space, Probes & UFOs. This class opened my eyes to the strides being made in order to further progress our advancements into space. At the end of the semester, the goal was to create an oral history project by interviewing a current engineer at NASA or Lockheed Martin, in order to fully understand the day in the life of an engineer working with outer space. I had the pleasure of talking to current Lockheed Martin Engineer, Celia Blum. She is currently a principal project engineer and was credited with reducing the pressure mass within the new Orion Crew Module. Before I had the pleasure of interviewing her, I wanted to ensure I had an ample amount of background information in order to be able to ask her the correct questions. The problem I began to face was that it was relatively impossible to find information on her. She had been published in the monthly NASA Orion Newsletter for her accomplishments and many awards she received. Aside from that, the mechanical aspects of her awards were unable to be found. This then drove me to the idea that I need to find a way to give women the credit that they deserve for the numerous strides they have been making that have gone unrecognized.