Women's History MonthYoung women who plan to study engineering at Old Dominion University recently looked in on projects underway at NASA's Langley...Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md. holds a bumper sticker given to her by members of the New Horizons team at the...Alice Bowman, the Mission Operations Manager, at work in the Mission Operations Center.Members of the New Horizons team are shown at the launch of the spacecraft, Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida...The female team members were photographed at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory on July 11, 2015, just three days...Samantha Cristoforetti rests in a chair outside the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft.ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti checks her Sokol pressure suit in preparation for the Expedition 43 crew's departure from the International...ISS043E160068 (05/03/2015) --- ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti waits next to the newly installed ISSpresso machine. The espresso...American Astronaut Sunita Williams from Expedition 33 floats next to the J-SSOD containing TechEdSat-1JSC's Ochoa Praises CCP ProgressSince the summer of 2011, Made in Space, Inc. chalked up over 30,000 hours of 3D printing technology testing and...Flight Director Dina Contella (foreground) and Orbit 3 CAPCOM Christie Bertels are involved in the undocking of the Soyuz TMA-11M.Flight Directors Dina Contella and Tomas Gonzalez-Torres look at monitors in the space station flight control room.Astronaut Karen Nyberg poses for a photograph with an enthusiastic NASA Social attendee following a presentation about her time living,...In 1975, Carolyn Griner (front), Dr. Mary-Helen Johnston and Dr. Ann Whitaker (L to R) practiced in Marshall’s Neutral Buoyancy...Flight director Dina Contella and astronaut Mark Vande Hei are pictured in the Johnson Space Center's space station flight control...The countenance of astronaut candidate Christina M. Hammock signals her success at fire-starting, a technique that will help sustain her...Astronaut candidate Nicole A. Mann works with a stripped down tree branch to use as material that will become an...Astronaut candidate Jessica U. Meir works with survival gear that will help sustain her for three days in the wilderness.Janet Kavandi, director of Flight Crew Operations at NASA's Johnson Space Center, speaks at a special media-day program.Nicole Aunapu Mann, one of the eight-member 2013 class of NASA astronaut candidates, speaks to a special media-day crowd on...Jessica U. Meir, one of the eight-member 2013 class of NASA astronaut candidates, speaks to a special media-day crowd on...NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, Expedition 36 flight engineer, conducts a session with a pair of bowling-ball-sized free-flying satellites known as...Propulsion engineer Sandra Greene, left, and test engineer Cynthia Sprader recently completed a series of test firings at the Marshall...ISS036-E-019830 (24 June 2013) --- In the International Space Station's Destiny laboratory, NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, Expedition 36 flight engineer,...On June 18, 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space when the space shuttle Challenger...JSC2013-E-048424 (24 May 2013) -- At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 36/37 Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg of NASA signs...From left, astronauts Pam Melroy; Kay Hire; Cady Coleman; Kathy Sullivan; Tam O'Shaughnessy, Sally Ride's life partner and chair, board...March is the annual celebration of National Women's History Month. In this image from Jan. 30, 2008, Expedition 16 commander...Maria Navarro, a post-doctoral researcher from the University of Miami, checked connections on the Advanced Whole Air Sampler instrument prior...This image shows Sally Ride, America's first woman in space, who was also part of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior...Present and former NASA astronauts Danny Olivas, Garrett Reisman, Barbara Morgan, and NASA Associate Administrator for Education (and astronaut) Leland...Five years ago today, on Oct. 10, 2007, U.S. astronaut Peggy A. Whitson, the first woman to command the International...JSC2012-E-215897 (18 Sept. 2012) -- Astronaut Sandra Magnus prepares to place a rose near the tree planted during a memorial...NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, Expedition 32 flight engineer, appears to touch the bright sun during the mission's third session of...In this photograph from July 2008, Dr. Sally Ride, who visited Goddard Space Flight Center for a tour and speech,...Sally Ride hosts the 2007 Sally Ride Science Festival at NASA Ames Research Center.Astronaut Sally K. Ride, STS-7 mission specialist, exits the Shuttle Mission Simulator (SMS) following a training session in the Johnson...NASA Dryden public affairs specialist Leslie Williams was honored with an Astronauts Personal Achievement Award – commonly known as the...Astronaut Sally K. Ride, STS-7 mission specialist, displays the array of tools at her disposal on the mid deck of...
