Mastodawn

drspacejunk Mar 22, 2025

The year is 1969. Men are about to walk on the Moon and Australia has a critical role. The first television pictures, watched by 600 million people across the globe, are transmitted through the Honeysuckle Creek tracking station near Canberra. #WomenInSTEM #IWD25 🧪
https://honeysucklecreek.net/

A Tribute to Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station

drspacejunk Mar 22, 2025

I hope you'll agree with me that this is a history worth telling. (And oh, the stuff I left out!). I have many complex thoughts about it.
But don't leave the thread just yet! There is a final thing I want to do.
#WomenInSTEM #IWD25 🧪

drspacejunk Mar 21, 2025

A key figure in the protests was MP Doris Blackburn (1889 – 1970). When she visited Woomera, she became aware of the impact on Aboriginal people. She worked closely with Aboriginal activists such as Margaret Tucker and Doug Nicholls.
🧪 #WomenInSTEM #IWD25
https://www.indigenousrights.net.au/people/pagination/doris_blackburn

Collaborating for Indigenous Rights 1957-1973

drspacejunk Mar 21, 2025

There was more serious work afoot, though. Woomera wasn't really about space. It was about developing weapons, missiles and ICBMs which could deliver nuclear warheads. The Australian public wasn't having it, so soon after WWII and the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 🧪 #WomenInSTEM #IWD25

drspacejunk Mar 21, 2025

As plans for the construction of the Woomera launch site were developing in 1946, Ella Grainger was thinking about the Moon. Ella was a Swedish singer, composer and painter who married one of Australia's great composers, Percy Grainger, in 1928. 🧪 #WomenInSTEM #IWD25
https://culturalcommons.edu.au/ella-graingers-diaries/

Ella Grainger’s Diaries - Cultural Commons

The Grainger Museum has recently accepted the donation of a collection of diaries owned by Ella Grainger, the Swedish artist, poet, and musician, and wife of Australian composer and pianist Percy Grainger. Born in 1889 in Stockholm, Ella Viola Ström moved to London as a teenager, studying painting at the Slade School of Art, then […]

Cultural Commons

drspacejunk Feb 18, 2025

Think about this. Any man was considered to be more intelligent and capable than every woman. All of them. Women were expected to give up their autonomy, careers, financial independence, hopes, dreams, and put everything into supporting a man. A man got x2 and a woman got 1/2. 🧪 #WomenInSTEM