About Betty Donelly

About Betty Donelly

Born and based in Brussels, Belgium, Betty Donelly started the International Space Organization website to breath new life into her involvement in space affairs.
Betty aspires to be a Moon base specialist by collecting information about all necessary systems to build, operate and expand a lunar human settlement on the Moon keeping in mind mission safety and with an eye for the human aspects involved in such an endeavour.
Born in 1967, Betty Donelly has come a long way on a not so orthodox trajectory towards true happiness.
Being a transgender woman has a tremendous impact on her almost non-existing social life, but the medical solution to the problem proved to be very successful in turning Betty into a truly happy person for the very first time in her life.
Her earliest memories contained premonitions of a life filled with adventure, to be undertaken with the spirit of an explorer. Betty recalls: “At age 2, I remember waking up in a film theatre to find myself immersed in the jungle world of Mowgli and his animal friends, and the same year the first astronauts flew to the Moon, and I was very upset because I was sent to bed early while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin performed their surface activities. I should say I almost felt like Michael Collins who stayed behind alone in the command module, endlessly circling Luna.”
By the time she was 7 years old Betty became a musician playing the dreaded violin and later this gave way to learning to play the guitar, while she kept a keen interest in the space endeavours of the early eighties that were sometimes, mostly when the space shuttle flew, broadcast live on local television.
“My interest in human space flight faded away though after watching the tragic Challenger accident in 1986 and i pursued a musical career by playing in bands”, Betty says.






In 2004 she started out as a one musician band, performing all music and online promotion activities herself. It culminated in the publishing in 2011 of her online as well as a small run physical album. You can listen to the entire album over at
http://www.reverbnation.com/bettydonelly.



It was high time for a musical break. Due to an unexpected event which is almost unspeakable, Betty renewed her interest in space affairs in 2010 upon the humpy bumpy ride into orbit and crummy docking of the Discovery shuttle to the International Space Station. And from then on she became closely connected to the international space community and has made a clear decision to making herself useful to this wonderful community.
These days, Betty Donelly tries to find her way as an independent space consultant with some international cooperation, government and ICT experience.