Will You Make It?
2 min readOct 21, 2021
Sian Proctor is a scientist and a poet who was among the first civilians that got to fly into space. She was the first Black woman to pilot a spacecraft, and one of only four Black female Americans to ever get to see the Earth from above.
In a short interview on NPR that you should definitely listen to, Sian talked about the legacy she wanted her trip to leave.