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Daisy Ridley Endorses NASA's First Female Launch Director

Star Wars: The Force Awakens star Daisy Ridley paid tribute to NASA’s first female launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson in a video published on Wednesday, May 4. Ridley described NASA’s female employees as “heroic” and said they “continually inspire girls to enter the space programme.”

Spaceflight engineer Blackwell-Thompson will be the first woman to oversee a NASA liftoff and launch and will also be the launch director for the Space Launch System, a rocket designed to carry astronauts into deep space and potentially Mars. Credit: YouTube/NASA