Nasa scientist Florence Tan, a Muar native, may have been involved in launching multiple missions to Mars, Saturn, Titan and the Moon, but she is still very much a Malaysian at heart and could still converse fluently in Malay and Hokkien, which she attributed to her grandmother who was from Penang.
When asked what sparked her interest in a career in aerospace, she said she was a Star Trek fan and she had always believed that space sparks the imagination, which is awesome!
“I wanted to be an aerospace engineer so when the guidance counsellor told me I can become an accountant because I was good at mathematics, I asked him if I could take computer science instead,” she said.
