One of these three women will make a stratospheric parachute jump with the Hera Rising project. From left: Eliana Rodriguez, Swati Varshney and Diana Valerín Jiménez.The historic first skydive by a woman from the stratosphere will wait an extra year.
"We are still in the midst of fundraising for the project, and while we have positive momentum we haven't closed the full amount necessary yet," a spokesperson told Space.com via e-mail. New aerospace projects commonly run into snags due to funding or technical difficulties, given they often use new technology that requires a lot of funding to develop. After that, development proceeds at a somewhat uncertain pace as engineers are learning and testing as they go.
"We're working with all types of schools ... really targeting especially schools that have large, diverse populations," curriculum designer Diana Lockwood-Bordaña, a female and Latina educational Ph.D. and author of"A Steam Mindset" , told Space.com in 2023.