NASA is All Female Spacewalk Hints at a Stronger, More Gender-Equal Space Program
NASA is All Female Spacewalk Hints at a Stronger, More Gender-Equal Space Program the first American woman in space(sally fide), lamented the attention she got from the press. After endurings sexist questions about whether she wept when things went wrong, or what her thoughts on motherhood were, she looked forward to a future where women could fly without anybody noticing. “It’s too bad that we’re not further along, that it’s [not] a normal occurrence for a woman to go up on a space shuttle flight,” she told a NASA historian in 2002. “It’ll be a wonderful day when this isn’t news.” These days, women flying aboard the International Space Station has become as unremarkable as Ride hoped it would. But plenty of milestones remain before the title “astronaut” can completely shed its historically sex-biased connotations. Last week saw another such milestone reached, as Christina Koch and Jessica Meir donned spacesuits and left the International Space Station for NASA’s first al
