![]() "We are now seeing a lot of little girls vocalizing and verbalizing that this is what they want, too. To help financially support her family, she worked multiple jobs, including at McDonald's, as a dog-walker, and when she was older, as a grader for the math department at the community college she attended before transferring to UCLA.Įchazarreta hopes her success can have an impact on her community. from Mexico when she was 7, and when she was just a teenager, she "teamed up" with her single mom to raise her three siblings. Growing up, Echazarreta's life was not always easy. That thought can be both comforting and scary, to know that the things that we have felt for so long that seem so large, are actually so small, fragile and vulnerable - just like we are, as humanity." "We are used to looking at out sky and it looks like it's so vast, and it's so big, and there's so much of it, and yet when you're in a rocket on your way out, you see how little of it there actually is. It feels so big to us, and yet it's not, because I just left in a matter of minutes. ![]() Everything that we've ever experienced, all of your problems, and all of your obstacles, and everything that feels like the end of the world to us sometimes, it's all there. She says her journey to space changed her perspective on life and she came back as a "much more patient and understanding human." Left to right: Victor Vescovo, Victor Correa Hespanha, Katya Echazarreta, Jaison Robinson, Hamish Harding and Evan Dick.Įchazarreta, who graduated from UCLA on a full scholarship, is currently getting her master's degree in engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The Blue Origin crew that flew to space on June 4, 2022. She flew alongside Evan Dick, an investor who had already flown with Blue Origin in a December flight and became the first to fly twice Hamish Harding, the chairman of a jet brokerage company Jaison Robinson, a finalist on the TV show "Survivor: Samoa" in 2009 and later the founder of a commercial real estate company Victor Vescovo, the co-founder of a private equity investment firm and Victor Correa Hespanha, the second Brazilian to reach space, who secured his seat after buying an NFT and who found out he was going to space by scrolling through his Twitter feed. You're able to see everything in three dimension - and on top of that, you're floating!" A very real, large, beautiful planet with the most beautiful glow of the atmosphere. You're experiencing microgravity for the first time, and you look out the window, and you see a planet. ![]() You notice the moment when you've never been higher than this before, but you're not really able to continue thinking about that thought because moments later, your capsule is going through separation from the rocket. "You have these massive windows to your side, and the view is just beautiful. But when you're in a rocket, you're going up vertically and that feels very strange," Echazarreta said. "The trip up was the most fascinating experience because a lot of us are used to traveling horizontally. Meet the 26-year-old who made history by becoming the first Mexican-born American woman, and one of the youngest women, to go to space. Then she proved the sky is ✨literally ✨the limit. Growing up, Katya Echazarreta was told her dreams were out of reach. ![]()
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