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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 ...

Nasa's first female space commander: I didn't want people to say 'the woman made a mistake'

Eileen Collins made history as the first woman to pilot and command a spacecraft - but despite her remarkable achievements, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A New Book Explains the Delay in Hiring Women as Astronauts

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 ...

NASA’s trailblazing generation

Among the trailblazing women, those who had long aspired to spaceflight learned to fly airplanes in hopes of improving their ...
Her Campus

The Future of Space is Female

The women in this group include Lauren Edgar, Rebecca Lawler, Anna Menon, Dr. Imelda Muller, Erin Overcash, and Katherine ...
New Orleans City Business

NASA introduces its newest astronauts: 10 chosen from more than 8,000 applicants

NASA introduced its newest astronauts Monday, 10 scientists, engineers and test pilots chosen from more than 8,000 applicants to help explore the moon and possibly Mars. For the first time, there were ...
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Next class of astronauts has more women than men for the first time in NASA history

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA introduced its newest astronauts Monday, 10 scientists, engineers and test pilots chosen from more than 8,000 applicants to help explore the moon and possibly Mars.
Hattiesburg American

NASA introduces new class of astronauts who could fly to moon, Mars. Here's a look

The candidates – six women and four men – are the first class of astronaut recruits in four years since 10 new astronauts were selected as part of the 2021 class. The incoming astronaut class includes ...