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🌠🌌The US Embassy was thrilled to be Tūhura Otago Museum Tūhura's "Out of this World Day" with former NASA astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, where they featured the powerful documentary "Woman in Motion: Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek and the Remaking of NASA." A peek into how Nichelle Nichols championed diversity at NASA in the late '70s, paving the way for the first Black, Asian, and Latino astronauts in space.

Then on Saturday, many from Dunedin were ready for an out-of...-this-world experience on as they joined Otago Museum Tūhura's 'Out of this World Day' where former NASA astronaut Heidemarie shared her once-in-a-lifetime experiences that included…

✨ 27 days in space across two missions
✨ Five exhilarating spacewalks
✨ Crucial repairs on the International Space Station

Not just an astronaut, but also a retired US Navy Captain , Heidemarie answered questions in a special Q+A session.🌠🌌

#OutOfThisWorld #OtagoSpaceDay 🇺🇸🇳🇿

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