Women Spacefarers: Sixty Different Paths to Space

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxi
Valentina Tereshkova: The Icon of Soviet Female Emancipation....Pages 1-8
Svetlana Savitskaya: Twice in Space—The Second Soviet First....Pages 9-16
Sally Ride: America’s Pioneering Woman in Space....Pages 17-25
Judith Resnik: The Second “Shuttlenaut”....Pages 26-33
Christa McAuliffe: “NASA Teacher in Space”....Pages 34-40
Kathryn D. Sullivan: The First American Spacewalker....Pages 41-47
Anna Lee Fisher: The First Mother in Space....Pages 48-53
Margaret Rhea Seddon: The First Wedding Among NASA Astronauts....Pages 54-62
Shannon Lucid: The First American Woman to Participate in a Long-Duration Mission....Pages 63-72
Bonnie J. Dunbar: The First Female Astrocosmonaut in History....Pages 73-82
Mary L. Cleave: Flying at Age 14....Pages 83-88
Ellen Baker: An Internist Physician on the Shuttle....Pages 89-93
Kathryn Thornton: The “Space Walker Mom”....Pages 94-99
Marsha Ivins: Aspiring Astronaut at 19....Pages 100-106
Linda M. Godwin: Physics and Astronomy....Pages 107-112
Helen Sharman: The First Briton in Space....Pages 113-119
Tamara Jernigan: An Astrophysicist Out Among the Stars....Pages 120-125
Millie Hughes-Fulford: The First Female Payload Specialist....Pages 126-130
Roberta Bondar: The Pioneer of Space-Medicine Research....Pages 131-136
Nancy Jan Davis: Growing Up with the Saturn Rockets....Pages 137-141
Mae Jemison: Our Limits Are the Stars....Pages 142-147
Susan J. Helms: Three-Star General....Pages 148-154
Ellen Ochoa: “Reach for the Stars and Let Nothing Limit Your Potential!”....Pages 155-161
Janice Voss: Visits the International Space Station as a Cygnus Craft....Pages 162-167
Nancy Currie-Gregg: A Passion for Flying and Concern for Safety....Pages 168-173
Chiaki Mukai: The First Japanese Astronaut....Pages 174-179
Elena Kondakova: The First Woman to Take Part in a Long-Duration Space Mission....Pages 180-184
Eileen Collins: The First Woman “Shuttlenaut” in the Driver’s Seat....Pages 185-191
Wendy Lawrence: The First Woman Astronaut of the US Navy....Pages 192-197
Mary E. Weber: From Skydiving to Stellar Strategies....Pages 198-202
Cady Coleman: The Colonel Playing the Flute in Space....Pages 203-210
Claudie Haigneré: The First European Space Agency Female Astronaut....Pages 211-216
Susan Still Kilrain: The Second Woman to Ever Pilot the Shuttle....Pages 217-221
Kalpana Chawla: The Regret of Not Officially Visiting Her Native Country....Pages 222-228
Kathryn Hire: The First American Woman Assigned to a Combat Aircrew....Pages 229-234
Janet Kavandi: The Rewards of Perseverance and Tenacity....Pages 235-240
Julie Payette: “To Assemble a Ship in the Ocean During a Storm”....Pages 241-247
Pamela Melroy, the Second and Last Woman to Command a Shuttle....Pages 248-254
Peggy Whitson: The First Woman Commander of the International Space Station....Pages 255-261
Sandra Magnus: Soaring to New Heights....Pages 262-266
Laurel B. Clark: From Deep Oceans to the Stars....Pages 267-272
Stephanie Wilson: “Madam Robotics Expert”....Pages 273-278
Lisa Nowak: The First Woman Astronaut Ever Dismissed from NASA....Pages 279-282
Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper: From Diver to Astronaut....Pages 283-288
Anousheh Ansari: The First Iranian Spacewoman....Pages 289-294
Sunita Williams: A Marathon Runner in Space....Pages 295-301
Joan Higginbotham: An Unplanned Adventure....Pages 302-306
Barbara Morgan: “I’ll Fly with the Eyes, Ears, the Heart and Mind of a Teacher”....Pages 307-312
Yi So-Yeon: Korean “Spaceflight Participant”....Pages 313-319
Karen Nyberg: The Marathoner Engineer Who Competes with the Space Station....Pages 320-325
Megan McArthur: An Aerospace Engineer Riding a Pedal-Powered Submarine....Pages 326-331
Nicole Stott: A Steady Flying Passion....Pages 332-336
Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger: From Space Camp to Space Station....Pages 337-344
Naoko Yamazaki: Astronaut for 4088 Days....Pages 345-350
Shannon Walker: The First Native Houstonian Astronaut to Fly into Space with Russians....Pages 351-358
Liu Yang: The First Female Taikonaut....Pages 359-362
Wang Yaping: A Live Lesson from the “Heavenly Palace”....Pages 363-369
Elena Serova: The First Russian Woman Cosmonaut on the International Space Station....Pages 370-376
Samantha Cristoforetti: A New Record for Endurance in Space for a Woman....Pages 377-381
Back Matter....Pages 382-389
....Pages 390-403