History of Feminism

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,603 posts) Mon Jun 16, 2014, 05:35 PM Jun 2014

Women in space

The following is a list of women who have traveled into space, sorted by date of first flight. Although the first woman flew into space in 1963, very early in crewed space exploration, it would not be until almost twenty years later that another flew. Female astronauts went on to become commonplace in the 1980s. (This list includes space travelers from the former Soviet Union, who are called cosmonauts.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_astronauts

Altogether 57 women have flown in space.

Here's just a few:

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Women in space (Original Post) discntnt_irny_srcsm Jun 2014 OP

New Sally Ride biography reviewed LunaSea Jun 2014 #1

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I'd never known before this how many female astronauts there'd been... Violet_Crumble Jun 2014 #2

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As usual an excellent and informative post ismnotwasm Jun 2014 #3

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LunaSea

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1. New Sally Ride biography reviewed

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Mon Jun 16, 2014, 06:06 PM

Jun 2014

http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2531/1

One of the chapters of Sally Ride, the new biography of the first American woman in space, leads with a quotation by Gabriel Garcia Márquez: “Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life and a secret life.” It is a quotation that is the essence of this book by longtime ABC News correspondent Lynn Sherr. Ride, of course, had a very public life, starting with her selection among the first group of women astronauts and, later, as the first American woman in space. She, like anyone, had a private life as well, one shared with family and friends.

But Ride also had her secrets, kept hidden from even people like Sherr, who considered herself close friends with Ride. One of them was the cancer that would take her life nearly two years ago at the age of 61. Another was her long partnership with Tam O’Shaughnessy, publicly revealed only in her official obituary. “Sally was very good at keeping secrets,” Sherr writes in the introduction of this book, which offers the fullest picture yet—and, perhaps, the fullest picture ever—of a woman many people only thought they knew.