Episode #112: Making Space for Women

On this week's episode, I sit down with Bailey Burns to discuss her important work as a space advocate and communicator, what she is up to at Paragon, her experiences as an analog astronaut with Hi-SEAS, and also her perspective on how the space industry could be more supportive of women.

Bailey Burns is a System Engineer at Paragon Space Development Corporation working on life support for the future of humans in space, including the next HLS lunar lander proposal with Dynetics.  She is also a graduate student studying Space Resources at the Colorado School of Mines.  Her focus is on lunar regolith and dust mitigation on the lunar surface. Bailey has also participated in HI-SEAS as an analog astronaut studying lava tubes in a two-week simulated moon base mission.  Bailey hopes to use her platform to show that everyone can bring their own skill set to the new space age, and have fun while doing it, which she does as an official Rubik’s Cube ambassador.