In 2023, Sabrina Thompson’s Girl in Space Club earned recognition from the likes of Essence and National Geographic for its special flight suits for women.
The company outfitted a primarily female crew for a Mars simulation called Hypatia in Utah, as documented in an upcoming film. Later that year, it provided flight suits for a coed crew in a cave simulation mission in Portugal.
“[We’re] providing a way for women to be able to work in better conditions in a sense just by changing the fact that the [flight suits can be opened] in the back so you don’t have to pull the whole thing off to go to the bathroom,” said Thompson, a Baltimore resident who works remotely, designing orbits and trajectories for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Thompson, who considers herself an out-of-the-box thinker, hopes to make an impact closer to home by integrating art, fashion and STEM education into a new set of pop-up workshops.
“So I started a program called STEMulating Art, specifically to use art and craft as a way to engage youth in STEM,” said Thompson.
