If you’re curious about the feasibility of human civilizations on the moon and Mars or reporting on pretty much any other space-related topic, our source this week can help.

Pablo de León is the director of the Human Spaceflight Laboratory at the University of North Dakota, where he is also a professor and chair of the space studies department. He has been working in the space field for three decades as an aerospace engineer in his native Argentina and in the United States.
 
De León has developed prototypes for several planetary space suits and has been the test subject on several space suit experiments. His prior experience was as chief designer and fabrications manager for several underwater-simulation pressure suit systems.

Other sources of interest this week.

Newly added to our database is another source on transgender health and equity. 
 
Elle Lett is a Black, transgender woman; a statistician-epidemiologist; and a physician-in training at the Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania. She applies the theories and principles of Black Feminism to understanding the health impacts of systemic racism, transphobia, and other forms of discrimination on oppressed groups in the United States. 

Sources of the Week on the news

Read:

• Linda McGill-Boasmond was featured in the Boston Globe as the only Black woman in America who owns and runs a chemical manufacturing company. 
• In National Geographic, Anton Treuer talked about the significance of water-ways as a route for the Ojibwe to navigate Minnesota in the past. 
• Ainissa Ramirez wrote about three impactful Black inventors in Scientific American.
• ABC News reports that decades after being denied the title of valedictorian from her high school, Tracey Meares was granted the title.
• Ankit Panda argues in Foreign Policy that Biden’s administration needs to take proactive deterrence policies against North Korea’s nuclear weapons plans. 
• Thirty years after the L.A. riots, the Los Angeles Times talked with Hyepin Im about her work to bring together Korean and Black communities.
• Time spoke to Daisy Auger-Domínguez about the difficult questions that need to be asked in making a workplace more inclusive.
• In them, Jules Gill-Peterson argues that anti-trans legislation across the country is seeking to erase at-risk transgender youth.
• Oni Blackstock writes in The Washington Post about the urgent need to maintain COVID precautions. 

Watch:

• Watch Sean Sherman make tamales with friends on MPR News.
  On CNBC’s Squawk Box, Kavita Patel shared her concerns about the new public health messaging around COVID safety protocols in the U.S. 
  
• On KATU, Tung Yin spoke on the mask mandate being struck down by a trial court judge.

Listen:

• On It’s Been a Minute, Leah Wright Rigueur shared her new podcast, Oprahdemics, and Oprah Winfrey’s impact on culture. 
• Jules Gill-Peterson appeared on It’s Been a Minute to talk about anti-trans legislation across the U.S.
• Jessica Ware spoke to Morning Edition about the name change for a moth that once had a slur in its name.
  
• Mehrsa Baradaran joined Stuck with Damon Young to talk about the struggles of handling new money.