'Sparkly' Scientist in Sequin Dress at NASA inspires netizens

One of the NASA scientists wore a golden sparkly dress while addressing a group of young girls. The scientist dressed in the glamorous gown has made it to the internet. She was an inspiration for the little girls and is widely being acknowledged across the internet. The photos went viral and she was termed as the young, ‘sparkling geeks’. 

The inspiring golden dress

Rita J. King posted the picture on her Twitter handle and told that she found the pictures while she was cleaning her closet. She remembered that she wore the golden dress while addressing the young girls in 2011 at a TedXYouth@NASA event in Hampton, Virginia. She said in an interview that she specially bought the dress for the occasion. Looking at the dress again made her extremely emotional.  She said in her interview that she was a futurist at the National Institute of Aerospace, which was NASA’s think tank in Langley, Virginia. 

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Message from the sequins 

She during her message motivated the young girls and reflected on the difficult times. She used the example of sequins as the powerhouse, the sun above the sea, but the actual power lies under the surface of the sea. The example was to make them resonate. 

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NASA astronauts cast vote

An astronaut who is currently a resident of International Space Station cast his ballot on Earth on November 5. Astronaut Andrew Morgan reportedly voted while being 250 miles away from the planet with the joint efforts of the NASA team along with Lawrence County, Pennsylvania’s Department of voter services. Morgan was a registered voter and mailed an absentee ballot application in the spring itself, requesting that his location would be NASA's Space Station in the orbit on the Election Day. 

Director of Lawrence County voting services Ed Allison was reportedly unsure about his move. However, he proceeded with making phone calls to NASA to discuss arrangements for a secure vote. To keep the vote confidential, the County's director of IT had developed a secure email address and password. Along with that, a 'fillable PDF' was created for the astronaut's ballot by clicking on the circle in front of the candidate he was wishing to vote for. First, the email was sent to Morgan to cast the vote, followed by the password which was only owned by him.

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