The Shape I’m In: Catherine Ryan Howards
Describing herself as an “armchair astronaut”, she took every opportunity to visit Orlando’s Kennedy Space Centre when she worked in nearby Disney. Her timing couldn’t have been better. “In 2007 I got to achieve a dream I’ve had since I was eight years old — to see a space shuttle launch.”
But the Cork woman has no intention of changing career midstream. “I never had the aptitude for maths. And the type of people who become astronauts are the opposite to me.”
