Washington D.C. – Pieces of history are missing from the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, and Ellen Stofan has to figure out how to raise $250 million to put them on exhibit and tell their stories.
At the same time, Stofan, a resident of The Plains and the museum’s new director, is overseeing a drive to reimagine the nation’s most popular museum. She wants girls to know they are badly needed in the sciences and that exciting and challenging futures await them there.
It was no accident Stofan, NASA’s former chief scientist and the first woman to run Air and Space, became a planetary geologist. Her mother was an elementary school science teacher and her father, a NASA scientist.
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Scientist aims to reimagine the National Air and Space Museum