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Growing STEM: Dr. Kathy Sullivan – explorer of space and the ocean

Dr. Kathy Sullivan has always been an explorer. The three-time astronaut was the third American woman to ever fly in space. In 1984, she became the first American woman to spacewalk 140 miles above Earth. Thirty-six years later, Dr. Sullivan dove more than 35,800 feet beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean. The feat made Sullivan the first woman to reach outer space, and the deepest part of the seas. Simply put, Dr. Sullivan is an inspiration for many. “Well, I think it's one of the greatest and best privileges that come with earning the astronaut label is that it opens hearts and minds and in many, many ways,” said Sullivan. It was an oceanography course, her freshman year of college, that turned this linguistics major into a record-setting scientist. “It was it boiled down to this is really fascinating me. I don't know what to do with it. I'm really good at languages. What are you guys do? What is being oceanography mean? There's something under that stupidly put question or that naively put question. And, you know, you have a moment, just a moment to decide whether you're going to laugh at or ridicule the idiocy, the naivety, the overly simplistic or are you going to pick out what's underneath there and grow it a little bit,” advises Sullivan. Read: https://www.wkyc.com/article/tech/sci...