Women in space
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Women have flown and worked in outer space from the beginning of human spaceflight. Overall women have been significantly less often chosen to go to space than men, and in June 2020, constituted only
A record four women simultaneously in space aboard the International Space Station in 2010 (Expedition 23 and STS-131). Clockwise from lower left: Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, Naoko Yamazaki, and Stephanie Wilson
Jerrie Cobb with a Mercury capsule (c. early 1960s)
Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space, in 1963 aboard Vostok 6
Mae Jemison, the first woman of color in space, aboard STS-47 in 1992
International Space Station
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The International Space Station is a space station in low Earth orbit. It is the product of the International Space Station program and is operated by five partner space agencies: NASA, Roscosmos, ESA
Obverse view in November 2021
A painting of Apollo–Soyuz, a first milestone in international spaceflight
Comet Lovejoy photographed during Expedition 30
Michael Foale conducts an inspection of the Microgravity Science Glovebox during Expedition 8.