In her talk, Rachel Lindbergh describes why so many people give up on finding their place in space and shares her story to explain why you shouldn’t. Rachel Lindbergh is a space policy analyst for the IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute (STPI), a federally funded research and development center created by Congress to support the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Rachel graduated from the University of Chicago in 2019 with a degree in Public Policy and Russian & Eastern European Studies.
As a high school student, Rachel started her journey in space by sending an experiment to the International Space Station (ISS). Through the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP), Rachel and her team investigated tin whiskers in lead-free solder, learning about the ups and downs of research in space first hand when her first two attempts at transporting her payloads to the ISS were destroyed with the explosions of the Cygnus Orb-3 and SpaceX’s CRS-7 rockets in 2014 and 2015 respectively. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at [ Ссылка ]
