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A Singapore-born businesswoman and physicist will enter space on a Blue Origin spacecraft at 9:30 am on Tuesday (February 25) US time.
Elaine Chia Hyde, currently with dual nationality in Australia and the United States, is one of the six crew members of the NS-30 suborbital flight mission announced by Blue Origin recently, except for one who refuses to Of the remaining five crew members who revealed their identity, only Elaine is a female.
Elaine lives in Florida, USA and is an entrepreneur, physicist and pilot. She founded the news media company Chicago Star and Eastside Enterprises, which focuses on the research and development of AI media products.
“Sometimes we have to choose to take risks,” Elaine said.
Born in Singapore, her mother works as a quality control engineer at a communications system company and her father is a telecom engineer. When Elaine was four, her parents immigrated to Australia and started a computer distribution company. At that time, it was in the early stages of the personal computer industry. During his growth, Elaine always hid in his parents' shop and assembled the motherboard of the computer.
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When she was 10 years old, after listening to a speech by an astronaut at school, she began to think about exploring space. After attending the space training camp at the American Space and Rocket Center in Alabama at the age of 16, she became more determined to explore space.
After earning her dual degree in business and physics at the University of Melbourne, she took her space dream to intern at the Astrophysics Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania. She then moved to Chicago to found Chicago Star Media, which started as a community newspaper.
Under her leadership, the company transformed into a communications service company and began supporting many local nonprofit organizations. Elaine believes that it was her efforts at the Chicago Star that opened her up to the opportunity to enter space.
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