Women in Space

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Women in Space 

Women have played an important part in space travel from its early days. In the 1950s, brilliant mathematician Katherine Johnson worked as an aerospace technologist, calculating space flight trajectories for astronauts.

From the 1960s onwards, women like Valentina Tereshkova, Sally Ride and Mae Jemison broke barriers and made history, paving the path for other females to become astronauts and go into space.

However, we know the path still isn’t straightforward for females wanting to go into space: NASA revealed as much earlier in 2019, when the first all-female spacewalk with Christina Koch and Anne McClain was cancelled – embarrassingly, it was due to a lack of proper-fitting female astronaut attire.