Christina Korp’s journey has been as unpredictable as a space shuttle’s. A singer-songwriter, she was a member of her family band before charting a solo career. Somewhere along the way, she ran a record label and production company. Then one fine day, she responded to a newspaper ad to work for astronaut Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin of the Apollo 11 mission that first landed humans on the moon. And today, she is known as the ‘astronaut wrangler’. Based in Florida in the United States, she produced the last five galas at the Kennedy Space Center celebrating Apollo 11. An astronaut manager, she now works with the likes of Apollo 16 moonwalker Charles Duke and NASA astronaut Nicole Stott. She founded SPACE For a Better World in 2020 to highlight the ways space benefits all life on earth and how it could be the key to achieving the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. In an exclusive interaction with THE WEEK, she talks about the Chandrayaan-3 mission and what it means for India and the world. Excerpts:
Q What does the success of Chandrayaan-3 mean for India and ISRO?
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