In her inspiring, moving and motivating lectures, Claudia Kessler shares insights on a wide variety of space and space exploration topics. She inspires her audience to think bigger and stimulates listeners and viewers to take action.
A life dedicated to spaceflight – fascinated by the Moon landing in 1969, the then four-year-old Claudia decides that one day she too will fly into space!
Claudia is an entrepreneur and visionary. She founded Astronautin GmbH in April 2017 to ensure the female future of (traditionally “manned”) astronautical space travel. Claudia had a clear goal – to get the first German woman into space by 2021. That is to say, the new female astronaut will become an inspiration to encourage young women into technology professions.
With Astronautin GmbH, Claudia is one of the few female founders in the high-tech industry to create a space start-up that makes engaging in space activities accessible to everyone. Astronautin GmbH makes it possible to transfer space experiences into everyday life on Earth. Moreover, every space experience is offered by Astronautin GmbH. From space events to astronaut training and analogue missions, parabolic flights plus suborbital flights, all the way through to astronaut space missions.
Claudia Kessler’s goal is not only to bring the first German woman into space but above all to make women stronger in order to help position them at the top of society and the working economy. Therefore, she inspires audiences in empowerment workshops with elements from astronaut training, personal coaching, and inspirational public speaking.
Being one of the few female executives in space, Claudia is constantly working to ensure more participation because women attract women! Additionally, Claudia founded the Women in Aerospace Europe (WIA-E) network in 2009. The goal is to promote the international careers of female specialists and managers. The network today has more than 500 members across 12 European countries. Furthermore, she is one of the few women to be a member of the Senate of the German Aerospace Society (DGLR) and the International Aeronautical Academy (IAA)….
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