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Blue Origin’s all-female spaceflight urges women to shoot for the stars — but astronaut memoirs reveal the cost of being exceptional

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Blue Origin’s all-female spaceflight crew, which includes pop star Katy Perry , is set to take off this spring .

The glamorous optics of this spaceflight are supposedly designed to encourage women to strive for their dreams.

Jasleen Chana : Behind this aspirational ideal, there is a more problematic story regarding successful women in science and their roles in public.

My research sits on the intersection between science and literature.

I am currently focussing on the written memoirs of contemporary women NASA astronauts.

I explore how scientists negotiate ways of communicating images of the scientist through their works.

I examine how they work intertextually to rewrite stereotypes of their discipline.