Astronaut Leland Melvin Celebrated for Work Championing Women

Leland Melvin, the NFL football player turned NASA astronaut, now spends his days inspiring women and minorities to pursue careers in STEAM fields (science, technology, engineering, art and math). Today the storytelling platform Makers, which features trailblazing women of the world, is celebrating Melvin's work on gender equality by adding him to a new, select group called Makers Men. The retired shuttle astronaut swept the Internet off its feet when he famously snuck his two adorable dogs, Jake and Scout, into NASA for his official portrait in 2009.