For the first time, all six members of the Air Force’s 45th Space Wing launch weather team are female.
For the first time, all six members of the Air Force's 45th Space Wing launch weather team are female.
For the first time, all six members of the 45th's Space Wing's launch weather team are female. The Air Force team has made critical decisions for hundreds of rocket launches, always with at least one man among their ranks. But for the next SpaceX launch scheduled for Saturday morning, these six women will decide if the weather is clear: Major Emily Graves, Captain Nancy Zimmerman, Airman first class Hannah Mulcahey, Arlena Moses, Melody Lovin and Jessica Williams.
"We provide weather support for the [SpaceX] barges to go out and recover those rocket parts," Zimmerman said. "We are digging into every single scan every three minutes and looking at how far each cloud edge is from the flight path and how tall each cloud is and how thick that cloud is, to evaluate the different weather launch commit criteria," Williams said.
"If there's any doubt in your heart and mind but you have something that you want to do, whatever [it is] within the STEM career field, just go do it," Zimmerman said.
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