The European GNSS Agency (GSA) partners with ESA and Sipa Press to promote the role of women in the space sector.

Women have always been involved in space and space exploration. One of the women featured in the project is GSA Deputy Head of Market Development, Fiammetta Diani In fact, in 1963 Valentina Terechkova became the first woman to fly into space. However, since then the number of women entering the field has been slim.

To help change this, Sipa Press and ESA, with the participation of the GSA, recently set out to document women’s contribution to the space industry, with the goal of inspiring a new generation of women in space. The result is a multi-media photo exhibition depicting three generations of women from around the world all involved in space exploration.

It Starts with a Dream

Many girls dream of becoming astronomers, designing rockets or being the first to land on Mars. The photo exhibition starts with the dream, highlighting girls participating in space related activities, including girls attending Space Camp in the US launching homemade rockets in Biscarosse, France. It then captures these dreams becoming a reality by portraying women currently working in the space sector.

One of the women featured in the project is the GSA’s Deputy Head of Market Development, Fiammetta Diani. Since 2009, Fiammetta has been working to promote the adoption of European satellite navigation programmes, Galileo and EGNOS, by a wide range of business segments.

Opening in Paris, Showing in Brussels and More to Come!

The “Space Girls, Space Women” inaugural exhibition will take place in Paris today, 29 June at 15h in the ‘Musée Arts & Métiers’. It will include a panel discussion with several of the featured women and other notables from the space sector.

The exhibition will then be on display in Paris at the ‘Musée Arts & Métiers’ and on the gates to the garden at the Paris Observatory from 18 June – 1 November 2015

In addition, also today, 29 June in Brussels, an excerpt from the full photo exhibition will be on display as part of the ‘Space and Society Conference: Towards a European Space Community’, at the European Economic and Social Committee.

A special showing of the exhibition will also take place in October in Prague during the first ‘GSA Open Days’. Stay tuned for more details!

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