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NASA astronaut Jeffrey N. Williams on Expedition 13, with various floating photography equipment in Zvezda module Image of the clouds and Moon in the distance, by a Kodak DCS760C An example of digital photography by Donald Pettit on Expedition 30. It is a long exposure photo showing star trails. Astronaut Jessica Meir undergoing photography ...
Evelyn Rodriguez Miralles (born 19 February 1966) is a Venezuelan-American engineer that served as the chief principal engineer with CACI International at NASA Johnson Space Center Houston Texas. Her work at the virtual reality laboratory at NASA furthered human spaceflight by training United States astronauts to perform spacewalks and working ...
Similarly, women from Canada, Japan, and America have all flown under the US space program. A span of one year separated the first and second American women in space, [4] as well as the first and second Chinese women in space, taking place on consecutive missions, Shenzhou 9 and Shenzhou 10. [5]
In 2021, Gerardi partnered with NASA to host the first all-female episode of NASA Science Live during Women's History Month. [34] In 2020, Mango Publishing published her first book, Not Necessarily Rocket Science: A Beginner's Guide To Life in the Space Age. [35] [4] [36] She has also created children's books about space called Luna Muna. [37]
The role of women in and affiliated with NASA has varied over time. As early as 1922 women were working as physicists and in other technical positions. [1] Throughout the 1930s to the present, more women joined the NASA teams not only at Langley Memorial, but at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Glenn Research Center, and other numerous NASA sites throughout the United States. [2]
Kathleen Hallisey "Kate" Rubins (born October 14, 1978) is an American microbiologist and NASA astronaut. [2] She became the 60th woman to fly in space when she launched on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) on July 7, 2016. [3]
Soviet Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space, launched in 1963 aboard the Soviet Vostok 6. The first woman to fly in space was Valentina Tereshkova, a textile factory worker who was an avid amateur parachutist, as parachuting was necessary for the Earth landing which was made outside the reentry capsule. [18]
On December 9, 2020, NASA announced that Stephanie Wilson was among the candidates for the Artemis program, and if selected, she could be both the first woman and the first African-American on the Moon. On January 31, 2024, NASA announced that Wilson would fly as mission specialist on the SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station ...