Conversations with Donna the Astronomer

An introduction to Donna the Astronomer!

An interview with Space Science Institute Senior Research Scientist Dr Padma Yanamandra-Fisher. Padma is a Planetary Scientist who worked on Voyager Projects and is very much involved these days in Citizen Science and ProAm Collaborations and we have worked together over the years on a number of Comet Observing Projects. Padma came from India and moved to the US as a Post Graduate student to obtain a PhD. Her family was fully supportive but it was not easy being a single female of colour.

Thanks to the movie Apollo 13 we have a better understanding of this mission than we do of the rest except perhaps Apollo 11. But at the time no one was particularly interested until....

The first in a series of Ladies in Astronomy throughout the Ages