The longtime NASA engineer is leading the team responsible for sending Artemis I to space. By Christine Chung “Go for launch.” Words like these are often uttered when a rocket is seconds from heading to space. On Wednesday, after decades of American spaceflight and numerous launches, a woman will be saying them for NASA. The Artemis I rocket, now on…
Just days before Anne McClain and Christina Koch were to venture outside the International Space Station, NASA swapped Ms. McClain for a man. They’d realized there weren’t two spacesuits ready that would work for both women.
Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, lamented the attention she got from the press. After enduring 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…
