Making Space: The Female Frontier
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As a veteran of the shuttle era, Charlie Blackwell-Thompson finalized payloads for the Boeing Company and then worked with NASA to oversee vital go/no-go checks before flight. But she’s taken on a new role as NASA’s first ever female launch dir
In July 2020, NASA launched its newest Mars rover to the red planet, complete with a stowaway: a small, four-pound helicopter that could become the very first spacecraft to fly on another world. A feat of engineering, the Ingenuity helicopter h
Kathy Sullivan has spent her life exploring the planet. She joined NASA in 1978 and was part of the space agency's first class of female astronauts. She's a veteran of three shuttle missions and was the first US woman to conduct a space walk. B
In 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell was a student at Cambridge spending her waking hours analyzing radio signals from across the universe. The signals appeared as squiggly lines on rolls of chart paper and it was her job to analyze those markings to
In the early ’60s, as NASA’s Mercury program was gearing up to send America’s first astronauts into orbit, a group of women went through a secret testing program to see whether they could survive the physical and mental stresses of traveling in
When JoAnn Morgan was 17, she worked on her first rocket launch. By 1969, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, she was at the controls for the Apollo 11 launch. She was the only woman in the room.
From the early days of the space race to the future of humans on Mars and the greatest scientific breakthroughs of our generation, women have always played a vital role in the history of space discovery --sometimes front and center, but more of
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