Women’s History MonthWhen new technologies for airplanes are developed, they need to be tested in wind tunnels to assess their effectiveness. Often,...On June 18, 1983, a young physicist from California took her seat aboard the space shuttle and launched into history....In the Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the astronauts of space shuttle Discovery's STS-131...From left to right are Shannon W. Lucid, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Judith A. Resnik, Anna L. Fisher,...The late 1940s saw increased flight activity, and more women computers were needed at the NACA Muroc Flight Test Unit...The women of the Computer Department at the NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station are shown busy with test flight calculations.Cathy Bahm, Orion Abort Flight Test integration deputy project manager, briefs news media on testing in Dryden's Flight Loads Laboratory.Sharon Christa McAuliffe received a preview of microgravity during a special flight aboard NASA's KC-135 "zero gravity" aircraft. McAuliffe represented...On June 18, 1983, Sally Ride made history, becoming the first American woman to go space. In this image, Ride...Eighty years ago this week on June 18, 1928, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic...Attired in Russian Sokol launch and entry suits, NASA astronaut and Expedition 16 commander Peggy A. Whitson, the station's first...Astronaut Sunita L. Williams, Expedition 14 flight engineer, used a pistol grip tool as she worked on the International Space...Expedition 13 crewmembers-cosmonaut Pavel V. Vinogradov (center), commander, and astronaut Jeffrey N. Williams (right), flight engineer-along with spaceflight participant Anousheh...Jerrie Cobb poses next to a Mercury spaceship capsule. And, although she never flew in space, Cobb, along with 24...Members of the First Lady Astronaut Trainees (FLATs, also known as the "Mercury 13"), these seven women who once aspired...
