An excerpt from Black Enterprise -
MEET THE BLACK WOMAN LOOKING TO CHANGE WHAT PEOPLE THINK AN ASTRONAUT LOOKS LIKE
by Jeroslyn Johnson
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| Lisa Alcindor (Image: Lisa Alcindor) |
Lisa Alcindor is a Black woman on a mission to get to outer space. The 34-year-old Northern Virginia resident promotes herself as an “Astronaut Candidate” on her LinkedIn and Instagram pages.
“What do astronauts look like?” her Instagram bio reads. With a goal of touring the universe, Alcindor has started a GoFundMe in an effort to get help paying for the astronaut training she will need ahead of being launched to infinity and beyond.
“My goal is to show people that they truly are limitless,” she told Washington Post.
And she wants people to understand that astronauts can look like her: Long braids, long lashes and all.
While people across the world watch billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Elon Musk take part in the ongoing space race, hopefuls like Alcindor are stuck resorting to more ordinary forms of achieving space flight.
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