International Space Day

Dr. France Cordova is a renowned astrophysicist who has broken gender and cultural barriers.

Fabiola Gianotti is an Italian particle physicist.

Gary Blackwood is the JPL manager for Exoplanet Exploration Program for NASA.

Lene Vestergaard Hau is a Danish physicist at Harvard who was able to stop a beam of light.

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist, cosmologist and science communicator.

Merieme Chadid is an astronomer from Morocco who did research at the South Pole.

Courtney Schumacher is an atmospheric scientist and educator committed to mentoring young women interested in science.

Gwynne Rowley Shotwell is the president of SpaceX, the company that made the Dragon space craft.

Paul Sipiera led an expedition into Antarctica to find meteorites for NASA.

Clifford V. Johnson is a string theorist who studies the makeup of the smallest particles of the universe.

Galileo Galilei was the first to use a telescope to observe the stars and planets.

Nicolaus Copernicus was the first astronomer to propose that the planets orbit around the sun.

Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer known for his laws of planetary motion.

Sir Isaac Newton was a scientist, teacher and inventor.

Albert Einstein believed in the power of imagination.

"...our image of the universe today is full of strange sounding ideas, and remarkable truths. The story of how we arrived at this picture is the story of learning to understand what we see."

Connie Samaras has created media archives for deep space voyages.

Judith A. Resnik inspired others with her determination to become a scientist and an astronaut.

Kenji Williams creates music and films that celebrate the earth from the perspective of space.

Tania Ruiz is an astrophysicist committed to science education and helping women reach their goals.

"Did you learn that from a book or did you observe it yourself?"

"This object is roughly three million times the mass of our sun inside a very tiny volume. A large mass in a small volume tells you that it has to be a supermassive black hole."

This animation shows the major mission events of the Curiosity rover's landing on Mars scheduled for August 2012.

Bella Galia means Beautiful Earth. Producer Kenji Williams came up with the idea after meeting an astronaut who lived on a space station for 6 months.

Kenji Williams discusses Bella Gaia at MY HERO Salon

A short piece about Young Astronomy students in a science fair at the Gimnazija Mostar organized by teacher hero Valentina Mindoljevic. This project was produced as part of the MY HERO Global Exchange Workshops held at the OKC Abrasevic in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.