Photo by MARK FELIX/AFP via Getty Images By Rayna Reid ·Updated February 2, 2022
When Jessica Watkins was a little girl attending Sally Ride Elementary School’s enrichment program, she dreamed of studying “the geology of other planets.” Nowadays, Watkins is living out her childhood dreams.
In 2017, Watkins was selected to be an astronaut candidate, and this April, she “is set to become the first Black woman to live and work
