Women Make Science: Kyrgyzstans Space School, Featured Documentary

A group of young women are looking to the stars in Kyrgyzstan. In the capital Bishkek, a nonprofit organisation has put together an allfemale group to build and launch the country s first satellite by 2021. This could help reignite an industry once shuttered; after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Kyrgyzstan gained independence but lost its national space programme. Nineteenyearold Alina and others work tirelessly to code, wire, design and build the satellite. They also have to whip up support and r