Women in Space!

Only 11% of astronauts are female, and in space engineering that number seems even worse. This blog is dedicated to put the Women in Space in the spotlight to educate and inspire a new generation. Previously known as F Yeah! Female Astronauts.

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Meet Sophie Adenot, one of the new ESA career Astronauts. Born in 1982 in France, she seems to have done everything right to get in this position. After studying spacecraft dynamics in France, she did a master of science at MIT specifically on centrifuge training for astronauts.

Right after she joined the France Air Force to become a helicopter pilot. In this role she worked as search and rescue pilot, formation flight leader, team captain and as experimental test pilot.

Sophie has received multiple distinctions for her work as young leader and her outreach for gender equality.

Can't wait to see her float in Space!

Image source: Armée de l’air et de l’espace

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ESA has new astronauts and 8 of them are women! Before today ESA had only a single female astronaut. More detailed post to omce in the next few days.

Sophie Adenot  France  Career Astronaut 

Pablo Álvarez Fernández Spain Career Astronaut

Meganne Christian  UK  Member of the Astronaut Reserve

Anthea Comellini  Italy  Member of the Astronaut Reserve

Rosemary Coogan  UK  Career Astronaut

Sara García Alonso  Spain  Member of the Astronaut Reserve

Raphaël Liégeois  Belgium  Career Astronaut

John McFall  UK  Parastronaut Feasibility Study Member

Andrea Patassa  Italy  Member of the Astronaut Reserve

Carmen Possnig  Austria  Member of the Astronaut Reserve

Arnaud Prost  France  Member of the Astronaut Reserve

Amelie Schoenenwald  Germany  Member of the Astronaut Reserve

Marco Sieber  Switzerland  Career Astronaut

Aleš Svoboda  Czech Republic  Member of the Astronaut Reserve

Sławosz Uznański  Poland  Member of the Astronaut Reserve

Marcus Wandt Sweden  Member of the Astronaut Reserve

Nicola Winter  Germany  Member of the Astronaut Reserve

Read more on ESA

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Meet Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, the Artemis 1 launch director. Charlie is the first female launch director at NASA and is overseeing the launches that will bring women to the moon.

As a child she already looked up to the Saturn V launches, but she never considered an engineering career until her high school teacher encouraged her. After studying computer engineering, she visited the control room for the first time at a job interview, and she knew she wanted to work there.

She didn't start at NASA immediately, but started working at Boeing in 1988. In 2004 she made the move to NASA to work on the Space Shuttle program. In 2016 she became launch director, the first woman in that position.

Photo Source: NASA/Joel Kowsky

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Artemis I Launch to the Moon (Official NASA Broadcast) - Nov. 16, 2022

Watch live as our mega Moon rocket launches an uncrewed Orion spacecraft on a six-week mission around the Moon and back to Earth. NASA is targeting Wednesday...

Now Live: Artemis I launch with Astronaut Kayla Barron.

Through Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone to send astronauts to Mars.

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Get ready for the announcement of new European astronauts on the 23rd of November. Will there be more ESA women in space beside Samantha Cristoforetti? Will we see a diverse group that reflects the people from the continent?

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Follow the Astronaut panel, including Jessica Meir, of the International Space University Interactive Space Program 2020 live now!

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Do you have any messages or tips for other girls who want to study and work in STEM fields?

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Five Times Astronaut Peggy Whitson Made History

On April 24, 2017, NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson established the new record for the most time spent in space by an American astronaut. She’s spent more than 76 weeks of her life floating in microgravity!  It’s not the first time in her career at NASA that Whitson has established new milestones: here are just a few.

First NASA Science Officer

Peggy Whitson was the named the first NASA Science Officer aboard the space station in 2002. The position was created to work with the United States research community to understand and meet the requirements and objectives of each space station experiment.

First Female to Command the Space Station… Twice

Whitson became the first female to command the space station during Expedition 16 in 2008. Then Whitson became the first female to command the station twice during her current mission on April 9, 2017.

First Female Chief of the Astronaut Office

In 2009, Whitson became the first female and first non-pilot to achieve the most senior position for active astronauts, Chief of the Astronaut Office.

Most Spacewalks for a Female

On March 30, 2017, Peggy Whitson broke the record for most spacewalks and most time spent spacewalking for female astronauts. Suni Williams had previously held the record at 7 spacewalks.

Most Time In Space By A NASA Astronaut

At 1:27 a.m. ET on April 24, Peggy Whitson set the new record for cumulative time spent in space by an American astronaut. Jeff Williams previously set the record in 2016.

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Peggy, you rock leadership. @AstroPeggy

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Peggy, Oleg and Thomas leave Earth in 6 hours. Courage. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#public

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Expedition 50 launches to the space station at 3:20pm EDT today. The three-person crew consists of American astronaut Peggy Whitson, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and European astronaut Thomas Pesquet. The trio will arrive at the International Space Station Saturday morning. Watch the launch live here on NASA television. P/C:NASA

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NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins Prepares For the Journey Home via NASA http://ift.tt/2fnNzOH

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Happy 60th Birthday to Mae Jemison, the First African-American Woman in Space!

Mission Specialist (MS) Mae Jemison poses in Spacelab-Japan (SLJ). File Unit: STS-47, 4/12/1981 - 7/21/2011. Series: Mission Photographs Taken During the Space Shuttle Program , 4/12/1981 - 7/21/2011. Record Group 255: Records of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1903 - 2006

Born on October 17, 1956, Dr. Mae Jemison became the first African-American woman in space during @nasa‘s mission STS-47 aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992. 

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Inspecting the Space Station’s Expandable Habitat via NASA http://ift.tt/2dWqgIy

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Mae Jemison and her suit tech sharon Caples-McDougle after an egress training.

Source: JSC Oral History

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not a lot of you know this, but mae jemison is my source of inspiration like i’ll never like physics or understand space travel, but i think about her in my worst times and i am just. stunned. i love her

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Hi. I've followed your blog for a while now, and as a young woman studying to be an aerospace engineer, this blog means a lot to me and regularly inspires me. I’m not surprised by the blind attitude given by this recent commentator-which had nothing to do with the original post. But it just further shows why support for equality is needed. Thank you for handling that post so wonderfully.

Thank you for the note. You're welcome :)

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Sexism In Space

Men are from Mars and women are from Venus, but in space they live really close together.