Prompt
Create a realistic portrait of Valerie Thomas, an African-American woman and NASA scientist, in her 50s, wearing a professional outfit and a warm smile, with a subtle background that hints at her work in aerospace engineering and physics, possibly with a faint image of the Earth or a spacecraft; she should be depicted in a confident and inspiring pose, conveying her groundbreaking contributions to STEM and her role as a trailblazer for minority students.