How to Explore Like a Girl
Explorer in Residence of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, underwater explorer Jill Heinerth shares her advice for women in exploration.
On Friday, February 5, 1971, the PA system at Munden Park Junior Public School in Mississauga, Ontario reverberated with a special announcement.
The school principal informed us that we should assemble in the library to watch television!
By the time classes started that day, there were two men donning spacesuits for a walk on the lunar surface that lasted over five hours. At roughly 4 am, Apollo 14 had landed in the Fra Mauro region, the intended landing site of the aborted Apollo 13 mission. Our teachers seemed a bit nervous, perhaps because of a fresh awareness of the risks that astronauts faced on their historic missions.
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