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Sian Proctor, 51 is a community college professor from Tempe, Ariz.
An African-American doctor in science education, Dr. Proctor came very close to becoming an old-school astronaut. He said that in 2009 he was among the 47 finalists chosen by NASA from 3500 applications. The space agency selected nine new astronauts that year. Doctor Proctor was not one of them.
He applied two more times and was not even among the finalists.
He still pursued his space dreams in other ways. In 2013, Dr. Proctor was one of six people who lived for four months in a small building next to a Hawaiian volcano, as part of a NASA-funded effort to investigate the isolation and stress of a long journey to Mars.
She is the pilot of the Inspiration4 mission, the first Black woman to serve as a pilot of a spacecraft.
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