{"id":16746,"date":"2026-03-05T10:12:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.planetdds.com\/?post_type=resources&#038;p=16746"},"modified":"2026-03-05T10:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:12:13","slug":"astronaut-sara-sabry-pursuing-the-impossible","status":"publish","type":"resources","link":"https:\/\/www.planetdds.com\/resources\/astronaut-sara-sabry-pursuing-the-impossible\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronaut Sara Sabry on Discipline, Resilience, and Pursuing the Impossible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What does it take to pursue the truly impossible? In this special episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CGxJ0sq_rE4&amp;list=PL8sPE8UqEy5i-ReuTOqL_BFzw0VAOucuT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Dental Economist Show<\/a>, host CRO Mike Huffaker of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetdds.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Planet DDS<\/a> steps outside the dental world to sit down with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sara-sabry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sara Sabry<\/a>\u00a0the first Egyptian, first Arab, and first African woman to travel to space. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A mechanical and biomedical engineer, PhD candidate, and founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deepspaceinitiative.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Deep Space Initiative<\/a>, Sara shares the mindset, discipline, and resilience that took her from growing up in Egypt with no path to the stars, to launching aboard Blue Origin&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blueorigin.com\/new-shepard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New Shepard<\/a> rocket in 2022. 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