Sarafina El-Badry Nance
Sarafina El-Badry Nance is an Egyptian-American astrophysicist, analog astronaut, writer and women's health advocate. She is the author of Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark.
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In many ways, we are still novices playing with toy models seeking to understand the stars.