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How Far American Women Astronauts Have Soared Since Sally Ride Took Her Historic Spaceflight
For 30 years, Valerie Neal curated the human spaceflight artifact collections at the National Air and Space Museum. But after ...
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This Historian Interviewed Nearly Every Woman Astronaut and Learned How They Redefined NASA Forever
Historian Valerie Neal reveals how women astronauts transformed NASA and redefined what it means to explore space.
JUPITER — On the second anniversary of Jupiter native Kellie Gerardi making the trip to space, the town has seen fit for all ...
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'It's harder to be a parent than a space shuttle commander', trailblazing Nasa pilot tells BBC
Eileen Collins made history as the first woman to pilot and command a Nasa spacecraft - but despite her remarkable ...
Among the trailblazing women, those who had long aspired to spaceflight learned to fly airplanes in hopes of improving their ...
The new selection of NASA astronauts will spend two years in training before becoming eligible for flight assignments.
Saudi Arabian astronaut Rayyanah Barnawi reached the stars and made history on May 21. As part of the SpaceX Ax-2 mission, the 34-year-old became the first woman from her country to reach space. She ...
Find out how NASA’s astronaut selection process has evolved. Diane Tedeschi Marsha Ivins (at Florida's Kennedy Space Center in 1995) flew on five space shuttle missions, logging more than 1,300 hours ...
Kathryn Sullivan said spacesuits for a women were a problem in the 1980s. For the first time in U.S. history, an all-woman team of astronauts — Anne McClain and Christina Koch — were scheduled to step ...
Dr. Mae Jemison encourages young girls to dream big and never doubt themselves. Dr. Mae Jemison, the first black woman in outer space, fell in love with science at an early age. Decades later, she's ...
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