Alice Bowman - Expert Space Drone Flyer
Image Courtesy of NASA New Horizons Gallery The image above looks like the next coming of the Dark Star? No, not really, just the heart of Pluto and its frozen. But, we are not here to talk about that but the story behind the story. This week's installment of Highline, HuffPost's new longform journalism project, shines the spotlight on Alice Bowman, Johns Hopkins' Advanced Physics Laboratory's first ever woman Mission Operations Manager or as she's known to her team, M.O.M. HuffPost's Highline Executive Editor Rachel Morris goes behind the scenes with the woman responsible for flying the most advanced unmanned spacecraft in history across 3.26 billion miles to get humanity's first ever glimpse of Pluto, all from her desk at APL outside Baltimore. Being at the helm of such an ambitious operation, Bowman is proving that spaceflight is no longer a man's game. Here's a glimpse of the article(c/o Huffington Post's Katie Maguire).