{"id":59353,"date":"2020-07-20T22:14:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T14:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/propulsion-in-space-while-moving-forward-on-earth-with-naia-butler-craig\/"},"modified":"2020-07-20T22:14:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T14:14:09","slug":"propulsion-in-space-while-moving-forward-on-earth-with-naia-butler-craig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/propulsion-in-space-while-moving-forward-on-earth-with-naia-butler-craig\/","title":{"rendered":"Propulsion in Space While Moving Forward on Earth With Naia Butler-Craig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Naia Butler-Craig is a <strong>NASA<\/strong> space technology graduate research fellow and a PhD student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, focusing on electric propulsion. She\u2019s not only involved in gateway Artemis projects, but as a self-proclaimed thrill-seeker, aspires to be an astronaut.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning at the age of 13, she\u2019s been on a journey to become an aerospace engineer.&nbsp; Since then, she has been honored with many accolades, including the 2020 Modern Day Technology Leader Award, Black Engineer of the Year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In this episode Naia talks about her journey in the space industry, her research, the importance of the smallsat renaissance, and the importance of tackling racism in STEM.<\/p>\n<h1>Listen here:<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Propulsion in Space While Moving Forward on Earth With Naia Butler-Craig by On Orbit Podcast by Via Satellite\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F861483094&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxheight=750&amp;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naia Butler-Craig is a NASA space technology graduate research fellow and a PhD student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, focusing on electric propulsion. She\u2019s not only involved in gateway Artemis projects, but as a self-proclaimed thrill-seeker, aspires to be an astronaut. Beginning at the age of 13, she\u2019s been on a journey to become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}