A nice similar piece earlier published on backchannel https://www.buzzfeed.com/ipsitaagarwal/the-women-who-took-us-to-mars https://www.buzzfeed.com/ipsitaagarwa

A nice similar piece earlier published on backchannel https://www.buzzfeed.com/ipsitaagarwal/the-women-who-took-us-to-mars https://www.buzzfeed.com/ipsitaagarwal/the-women-who-took-us... "An image of the scientists celebrating in the mission control room went viral. Girls in India and beyond gained new heroes: the kind that wear sarees and tie flowers in their hair and send rockets into space." looked hard to find this one since backchannel moved back to wired and I didn't have free articles to read. Irony! Edit: source on BuzzFeed took me to wired right link https://www.wired.com/2017/03/these-scientists-sent-a-rocket-to-mars-for-less-than-it-cost-to-make-the-martian/ https://www.wired.com/2017/03/these-scientists-sent-a-rocket...