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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-13-07 08:15 PM
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A Happy Valentine's to Valentina Tereshkova
And all other women in space:

Glory to all of them.

(May the day come, when they can't all fit in a single list!)


1963 - Valentina Tereshkova


1983 - Sally Ride


1984 - Svetlana Savitskaya


1984 - Kathryn Sullivan


1984 - Anna Fisher


1985 - Christa McAuliffe


1992 - Kathy Thornton


1992 - Bonnie Dunbar


1992 - Ellen Baker


1992 - Mae Jemison


1993 - Ellen Ochoa


1994 - Chiaki Mukai


1995 - Eileen Collins (first female shuttle pilot, first shuttle commander, 1999)


1996 - Shannon Lucid (awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor)


1998 - Nancy Currie


2003 - Kalpana Chawla


2003 - Laurel Salton Clark


2005 - Lisa Nowak
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YankeyMCC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-13-07 08:20 PM
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1. Indeed!
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-13-07 11:09 PM
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2. Judith Resnik


http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/resnik.html
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 03:21 AM
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3. Thank you!
Edited on Wed Feb-14-07 03:35 AM by Xipe Totec
Happy Valentine's, Judith.

(And no offense intended by my horrible gaffe).
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TheBaldyMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-18-07 11:37 AM
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4. Helen Sharman - first Briton in space
a Yorkshirewoman who went into space in 1991 with Soyuz missions TM-11 and TM-12

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/18/newsid_2380000/2380649.stm
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-10-07 04:25 PM
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6. Thank you for this wonderful addition!

Helen Sharman - 1991
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-18-07 04:41 PM
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5. Marsha Ivins
Best hair in space:
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