The Sky Belongs to All of Us - NASA Science

Hashima Hasan – The Sky Belongs to All of Us #NASA

Hashima Hasan is a highly accredited NASA program scientist and the first female program scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope. Read her inspirational journey and career highlights from NASA! The story starts in October 1957, when I was 7 years old, and my grandmother ordered the entire family, including my 3-year-old sister, all the servants and their families, to collect at dawn in the backyard of the home and watch Sputnik pass by the …

The Sky Belongs to All of Us - NASA Science

6 min read The Sky Belongs to All of Us By Hashima Hasan How did a little girl born in India soon after its independence from the British Empire, become a program scientist for NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, and the first female program scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope, Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), Gravity Probe B, and other astrophysics flight missions? The story starts in October 1957, when I was 7 yea…