Challenging the space industry’s attitudes towards diversity, the ‘wild boar paradox’ explained

14 Sep 2023 Hamish Johnston

In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast, the science journalist Anna Demming meets four people who are trying to change the space industry’s attitudes towards diversity. She is joined by Franco Labia, who is founder of the Space Pride charity, which celebrates the LGBTQIA+ community in the global space sector; Rynee Fandora, who is co-lead of the International Astronautical Federation’s LGBTQ+ working group; Dhanisha Sateesh, who is a member of the diversity and gender equality group at the Space Generation Advisory Council; and Neela Rajendra, who is chief inclusion officer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Also in this podcast, Physics World’s Margaret Harris explains why the meat of European wild boar contains more radioactive caesium than expected.There is more about diversity in the space industry and Space Pride in this article by Demming: “How Space Pride is campaigning for change in the space sector”.

This episode is sponsored by Pfeiffer Vacuum.

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Hamish Johnston is an online editor of Physics World

FROM PHYSICSWORLD.COM    17/9/2023