GEORGE TOWN, Aug 7 — United States’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientist Florence Tan may have been involved in launching multiple missions to Mars, Saturn, Titan and the Moon, but one of her proudest career moments was winning her almost five-year battle for a breastfeeding room to be set up for new mothers at Nasa.
“They kept saying no. I fought from 1994 until October 1999, and only after I stopped nursing my second child, did they finally approve the first room to be set up,” she said. She said what spurred her to push hard for the room was when she saw another pregnant woman at Nasa and realised that the woman would face the same hardship she had when she was nursing her children.
Seven of these mass spectrometers were launched to destinations such as Mars, Saturn, Titan and the Moon. “At the time, we were building the Curiosity mission, the rover to Mars, but I knew I had to come back so I took about a week off to come and see her,” she said. Tan was accepted to Kuantan MARA Junior Science College at 13 years old and managed to secure a government loan to continue her studies at Western Michigan University in the US before she transferred to University of Maryland where she obtained a bachelor’s degree in electrical and computer engineering.
“The condition of the loan was that I had to take a course related to my original course, so I took ECE,” she said. She said there was some luck in her getting that interview for an internship at Nasa but there was also some level of preparation and networking to make it happen.
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