The New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science will host an evening in celebration of the first American Woman in space, Dr. Sally Ride.  To celebrate this year, the Museum has a very special guest: Melinda M. Snodgrass.

About Sally’s Night:  Sally Ride lived her life with extraordinary energy, passion, curiosity and joy.  All astronauts lead exciting lives, but some are larger than life even before they reach for the stars.  Whether in the classroom or on the tennis court, in the lab or on the launch pad — it was clear from the start that Dr. Ride would reach great heights.

About Snodgrass:  She began her Hollywood career with Star Trek: The Next Generation where she was a script writer and series story editor.  She has worked on numerous TV shows, written television pilots and feature films, and has two television series in development.  Her novels include both science fiction and mystery.  She writes for, and co-edits, the shared world anthology series Wild Cards with George R. R. Martin.  She studied opera at the Conservatory of Vienna, and holds degrees in history (UNM) and law (UNM Law School).  In 2021 she was the Screenwriting Guest of Honor and Keynote Speaker for the Life, the Universe, & Everything professional science fiction and fantasy symposium.  For fun, she is an equestrian who competes in dressage.

Snodgrass will be available 6:00-6:30 pm to sign her books.  The episode will begin at 6:30 pm, followed by her talk.

The museum’s traveling exhibition Sci-Fi & Sci-Fact, which explores the ways that science fiction and scientific fact overlap and helped to create our modern world, will also be open for Sally’s Night attendees to view.