# NASA engineer inspires girls to reach beyond gravity

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Podcast: [UN Interviews](https://stenobird.com/podcast/un-interviews-817354)
Published: 2026-04-28T16:37:06+00:00
Episode link: https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/audio/2026/04/1167397
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NASA aerospace engineer Alinda Mashiku was born in New York then moved to Tanzania as a young girl, where she dreamed of becoming an astronaut – but reaching for the stars seemed almost an impossibility.  Today, as a Program Manager with the US space agency, she helps ensure that satellites avoid collisions in orbit, contributing to the safety and sustainability of pioneering space missions such as the record-breaking Artemis II mission around the moon earlier this month. According to  UN data , women make up only 35 per cent of science, tech, engineering and maths graduates (STEM) – figure that has not changed in the past decade. In an interview with UN News’s Anold Kayanda from our Swahili team, Ms. Mashiku explains why girls should place no limits on their ambitions to break the STEM glass ceiling, into the stratosphere. 

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