{"659027":{"#nid":"659027","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"NASA\/JPL Named Two Sites on Mars After an Author and an Engineer. Here\u2019s Why You Should Know Them, Too.","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/lisa-yaszek\u0022\u003ELisa Yaszek\u003C\/a\u003E, Regents Professor of Science Fiction Studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was quoted in the article \u0026quot;NASA\/JPL Named Two Sites on Mars After an Author and an Engineer. Here\u0026rsquo;s Why You Should Know Them, Too.\u0026quot; published by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EUSA Today\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;on April 10, 2021.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn excerpt:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;[Octavia Butler]\u0026nbsp;was literally one of the first, if not the first, Black women to publish in modern science fiction magazines under her own name,\u0026quot; Yaszek says.\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;She was also the first Black woman to win both the Hugo and Nebula awards, which are the top awards in science fiction,\u0026quot; Yaszek says. \u0026quot;That\u0026#39;s like getting the Oscar\u0026nbsp;and the Golden Globe.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36009","created_gmt":"2022-06-22 17:55:40","changed_gmt":"2022-06-22 17:55:40","author":"cwhittle9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/in-depth\/graphics\/2021\/04\/10\/mars-rover-perseverance-helicopter-ingenuity-octavia-butler-jakob-van-zyl-nasa-jpl-caltech\/7085217002\/","dateline":{"date":"2021-04-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-04-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"647841":{"id":"647841","type":"image","title":"Lisa Yaszek","body":null,"created":"1622232958","gmt_created":"2021-05-28 20:15:58","changed":"1622232970","gmt_changed":"2021-05-28 20:16:10","alt":"Lisa Yaszek","file":{"fid":"245926","name":"YaszekLisa_web-square.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/YaszekLisa_web-square.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/YaszekLisa_web-square.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":376888,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/YaszekLisa_web-square.jpg?itok=ZF_BEo-E"}}},"media_ids":["647841"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}