Today is Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day. Paromita Mitra is the principal investigator for the Joint Augmented Reality Visual Informatics System project at NASAJohnson Space Center: “Getting to be a part of the Artemis Generation and contributing to sending the first woman and person of color to the Moon, is so innately motivating. Working on the [spacesuit] itself is an exciting challenge. It’s very cross-disciplinary. There are biomedical problems you’re approaching, there are optical problems, there are mechanical, electrical, computer science problems. But then you introduce this exciting problem statement that is the suit into this even more exciting program initiative that is Artemis — and honestly, I couldn’t feel luckier to be a part of it. “The ability to be a creative individual in a STEM field is so vast and STEM careers are really going to define a lot of our future. We really need diverse minds. We need a diverse population of people solving those problems, so that w...