The Friendship Onion

By Kast Media | Dominic Monaghan & Billy Boyd

Billy & Dom Talk to a Rocket Scientist!

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Published May 24, 2022 4:00am

Billy and Dom talk to Rocket Scientist Olympia LePoint who talks about how she got started at NASA, being one of the few females in a male-dominant environment, her job in calculating catastrophic failure for shuttle missions, and her book Mathaphobia which explores how to overcome the fear of mathematics!

Olympia Ann LePoint is an American author, professional speaker and rocket scientist. LePoint helped design rockets for 28 of NASA Space Shuttle missions between 1998 and 2007. In 2007, LePoint discovered and in 2010 trademarked the condition and term Mathaphobia, a learning disability and math fear linked to the amygdala. She published...

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