Mae Jemison： Starship

If I had been comparing what I thought I would be doing in space when I was an eight-year-old girl to what I actually did in space, I would have been really irritated. Why? Because I assumed we would have been on Mars or we would have been circling Jupiter by that time. And that's where I am today is how do we make our movement further into space a reality. I currently lead the 100 Year Starship. It is an initiative to ensure that within the next 100 years all the capabilities exist to send humans to another star system. 100 Year Starship has different mechanisms to include people, whether it's public symposiums, we have lay people, education, scientists, artists, we're doing workshops, we have online forums. We need to make sure that we're using the full wealth of human talent across ethnicity, across gender, across geography, across disciplines. All the capabilities that are needed for a successful journey to another star system by humans are all the capabilities that we need to sustain ourselves as humans on this planet. And so we believe pursuing an extraordinary tomorrow creates a better world today.