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“L’Engle’s Fiction Inspired Real Science” from National Public Radio’s Science Out of The Box hosted by Jacki Lyden with special guest astronaut Dr.Janice Voss on September 8, 2007. This interview was conducted the day after Madeleine L’Engle’s death.

Dr.Voss started reading at a young age and read A Wrinkle in Time during her fifth grade summer. She said that it “Was the most interesting thing,” she had ever read. In fact, it was what made her fall in love with science fiction (SF). More importantly she said that it’s “what got me interested in space and on my path to be an astronaut.”

Dr.Voss goes on to talk about tesseracting, which is about travel through space and time. She had mentioned this at a pre flight interview and one of her crewmembers had told her “That book is about time travel, if you were looking for time travel in the US space program, you’re not going to find it.”

Dr. Voss also talks about the theme of pulling resources and problem solving skills together to help the ones you love. She states that the theme is prominent in both the novel and in the space program.

Dr. Voss also mentions how both Meg and her Mother were written as being smart, strong, and capable women. She says that this idea always stuck with her.

Dr.Voss says that she never met L’Engle, but she did have email correspondence with her and even read a copy of the novel in orbit that L’Engle had given her.