When Olympia LePoint was 6 years old, a school field trip altered her young life. The South Central, Los Angeles, native says she “became alive” as she viewed a mission control room and jet engines at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, where her late grandfather was a janitor.
“It was uplifting for me,” LePoint tells People. “I told myself I wanted to be like the men I saw on the walls who were launching rockets.”
When LePoint was growing up, the world of rocket science was indeed a man’s world — one she aspired to join.
Similar to the Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures,...
“It was uplifting for me,” LePoint tells People. “I told myself I wanted to be like the men I saw on the walls who were launching rockets.”
When LePoint was growing up, the world of rocket science was indeed a man’s world — one she aspired to join.
Similar to the Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures,...
- 2/22/2017
- by Katherine Richter
- PEOPLE.com
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