Elizabeth Howell (she/her), Ph.D., is a staff writer in the spaceflight channel since 2022 covering diversity, education and gaming as well. She was contributing writer for Space.com for 10 years before joining full-time.
" follows the story of how the space shuttle program was served by experts in threading needles and sewing machines. One of those experts was Jean Wright. docent, a program for former NASA employees who support KSC outreach programs and share their stories with the public. Her story intrigued author and illustrator Elise Matich; the two first met in 2019 at the space shuttle Atlantis exhibit where Wright regularly works.
Anyway, I had an interview and it was two hours long with three different people. And they're asking questions left and right. For some reason, I just felt so comfortable being there. It's like I knew I was supposed to be there. They were amazed at how much I knew, how enthusiastic I was — that I knew the launch schedule for everything. But I just wanted to make sure that I sounded good and right for the part.
My boss says to me,"Well, the fact that we invited you out to the facility, you had no clue ." I said,"No, I thought you guys were just being nice." Space.com: In the process of recreating the story for a new audience in your book, how did you pick what to choose in your six years? What types of stories to tell in the book alongside the author and illustrator — because that must have been hard, right?I had so many here. The thing is, when we were in the process of doing the book, they at least had some beautiful pictures that were very gorgeous.
It's funny because we were watching the crew on NASA TV. All they have is this little teeny suture kit and we're laughing because we're thinking, these are Class 11 blankets. Two inches thick. We were curious how the astronaut thinks he's going to fix the blanket with that. So he instead pulled out a stapler, stapling it down. He just took his two fingers and just squished the blanket down to where it needed to go.
We were called the Sew Sisters. That was primarily named by the guys, because downstairs the tiles were built. On occasion they would come upstairs and watch. They would say it looks like a quilting bee, and for some reason one of them started calling us the Sew Sisters.
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