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Caroline Clark
@carolineclark.space
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🔴 On a mission to put women on Mars 🔴

Space psychologist in training.
Analogue astronaut.
Leadership and organisational development.
Startup mentor with UK Space Agency.
STEM Challenge Coordinator at Cosmic Girls Foundation
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My latest post explores imposter feelings in Product - and links back to how tech (as an extreme job) creates fertile ground for those feelings to take hold and grow.

Let me know what you think!

#25 - Why Product work makes imposter feelings spike open.substack.com/pub/liftoffw...
#25 - Why Product work makes imposter feelings spike
What fifty years of research — and new data from Product people — reveal about fear, identity and belonging at work.
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November 15, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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On Friday I appeared on a panel with Female Product Lead sharing my experiences of being autistic.

A rich discussion across the 4 panellists, sharing how to build products & services that are inclusive of everyone.

Thanks to Salesforce for hosting us - gorgeous venue!
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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In my latest Substack, I explore extreme jobs - which are no longer confined to military, police, healthcare or space…

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November 1, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Building on its strong expertise in security and resilience, Poland is uniquely positioned to play a leading role in ESA’s European Resilience from Space initiative at ESA's Ministerial Council, a timely opportunity to reaffirm its long-term strategic commitment to European space leadership.
October 29, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Europe needs to synchronise space for defence initiatives, align competencies, avoid duplication & pool resources. We remain too fragmented to guarantee Europe with genuine, comprehensive and autonomous space resilience. We have an opportunity to change that, and we must.
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Europe turns to space to boost resilience
The role of space for security was presented at a high-level event in Brussels on Tuesday.
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October 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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🇯🇵 We're establishing a new presence in Tokyo, Japan, our first in Asia! Our new ESA office in Tokyo will serve as a strategic outpost for deepening bilateral engagement, and sets the course for an ambitious new chapter in European-Japanese space collaboration🤝

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Mr Jun Kazeki, Director General of the National Space Policy Secretariat in the Cabinet Office of the Japanese PM, with ESA's Eric Morel de Westgaver, ESA Director of Strategy, Legal and External Matters. view of a section of ESA's Tokyo office space. View of the keynote session given by Eric Morel de Westgaver, ESA Director of Strategy, Legal and External Matters, at Nihonbashi Space Week 2025, marking more than than 50 years of achievements shared by Europe and Japan.
October 29, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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My mother and grandmother were part of the letter writing campaign that saved Star Trek TOS. This photo was a thank you from the Star Trek folks and is an heirloom of my house.
A black and white publicity photo of McCoy, Kirk, and Spock in front of the Enterprise shuttle.
October 29, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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This is my article! I got published for the second time in BPS’ magazine.

Read on for details of my experience as an analogue astronaut at LunAres
October 27, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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My latest post, exploring ‘self’ from different lenses

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#22 - Rethinking self: from fixed identity to dynamic process
What Self-Determination Theory, Buddhism, and modern psychology can teach us about autonomy and change.
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October 25, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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The latest Substack post from me - after reading UNOOSA’s post on gender equality in space

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The next frontier for equality
On the dangers of recreating gender inequality in space - and beyond.
open.substack.com
October 18, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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So you think you’re funny?

How humour is a survival skill for astronauts.

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So you think you're funny?
Why spaceflight requires you to have a healthy sense of humour.
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October 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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It's #WSW2025 and the theme this year is “Living in Space". 👩‍🚀👨‍🚀

In 1991, Helen Sharman became Britain’s first astronaut when she launched to the Mir space station as a research cosmonaut. 🚀🇬🇧

Her mission lasted 8 days, during which time she conducted medical and agricultural experiments. 🌍

#WSW2025
Helen Sharman. Credit Gagarin Research & Test Cosmonaut Training Center. Helen Sharman and Sergei Krikalyov with cosmonauts Viktor Afanasiyev and Musa Manarov onboard Mir. Mir space station. Credit: NASA
October 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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i’m still thinking about the fact that for the first time in nasa history, the newest class of astronaut candidates is MAJORITY women.

this is for all the little girls out there who are dreaming big, it is possible 🥹🚀
NASA's ten astronaut candidates, wearing blue flight suits, stand behind, on, and around a four-foot-tall red structure of the NASA "worm" insignia. They are in a large room with various spaceflight art and artifacts behind them. Credit: NASA
October 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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space is pretty, but you’re prettier.. 🌌✨
A group of white, orange, and blue stars sparkles in the darkness of space. Below the stars, orange and yellow clouds of gas glow, revealing structures that look like rock formations and arches. In the lower left, white text reads "Hubble". Thousands of stars shine against black space. At the center is a thin vertical cloud known as Lynds 483 that is shaped like an hourglass with irregular edges. At lower center are two discrete bright white, tiny blobs of light that have raced away from the hidden central stars. The top lobe shows a more prominent orange U-shape. Orange bleeds into light purple, and brighter pink at its edges. Some background stars are visible through sections of this lobe. Higher up, there is an orange arc. Some brighter pink material extends to the top edges near the center. In the lower lobe, less orange is visible. More opaque light purple is in its top third, rippling out into semi-transparent blues and pinks. The lower lobe has more texture. V-shapes left and right of the lobes are darkest, and the background stars in these areas appear orange. Elsewhere, the black background of space is clearer, speckled with tiny white stars and faint orange galaxies. Hubble's view: Bright blue stars are in a cluster at the center of the image. They are surrounded by a shell of brownish and burnt orange dust and gas. The shell has ridges that reach towards the stars like teeth. Stars within the dust and gas are hidden from Hubble but visible to Webb in the infrared. A number of more distant galaxies also appear in the background.
October 5, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL OBSERVE THE MOON NIGHT, HERE’S MY FAVORITE MOON PICTURE I’VE TAKEN!!
The Blood Moon seen through my telescope
October 5, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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My latest Substack - I got accepted for MSc Organizational Psychology at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social - but decided to defer until next year. But I'm not going to waste the next 12 months - this post covers what I plan to do.

#19 - The space between degrees
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#19 - The space between degrees
How I designed a bridging year to carry me from graduate to Masters — and towards the future I want.
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October 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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✨Inspiring to talk to British Paralympian, surgeon, astronaut (and namesake!) John McFall.

He's set to be the 1st 👨‍🚀 with a physical disability to take part in a long-duration mission to the International Space Station, a landmark for human space exploration 🚀 @ukspaceagency.bsky.social @esa.int 👇
September 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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I had so much fun - and laughter - when I joined Lucia Knight on her podcast, Joy at Work.

why humour is a leadership superpower

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Humour at Work: Why Laughter is a Leadership Superpower
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September 24, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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Artemis II is planned to launch in February 2026.

it’s a lunar fly-by, to test the procedures and engineering for landing on the Moon in Artemis III.

Really exciting to see this come to life after years of preparation! Another generation inspired by space.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Artemis II: Nasa plans crewed Moon mission for February
The mission around the Moon will pave the way for a lunar landing as soon as 2027.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Conversations with real space psychologists: what I've learned this week that helps me shape my next steps post-psychology degree

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April 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Thank you for publishing my article @psychmag.bsky.social !
April 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Hello, world.

I'm here because of what is happening on those other platforms.

I need to figure out how this thing works. Any tips for noobs?
January 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM