Mary Alice Davis Distinguished Lecture 2024

Featuring Loren Grush, a space reporter for Bloomberg and author of “The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts.”

Loren Grush is a space reporter for Bloomberg, where she covers everything from NASA, human spaceflight, and the booming commercial space industry to distant stars and planets. She’s the author of “The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts.” The daughter of two NASA engineers, she grew up surrounded by space shuttles and rocket scientists—literally. Prior to joining Bloomberg, she was a senior science reporter for The Verge, where she covered space and hosted her own online video series called Space Craft, a show that examined what it takes to send people into the cosmos. Loren has also published stories in Popular Science, The New York Times, Nautilus Magazine, Digital Trends, Fox News, and ABC News.