The Cover of LOOK magazine in February 1960 asked, "Should a girl be first in space?" Aerobat Betty Skelton was their test case and cover person. Credit: Greg Scheiderer
- The Cover of LOOK magazine in February 1960 asked, "Should a girl be first in space?" Aerobat Betty Skelton was their test case and cover person.
- Sally Ride was the first American woman in space on the STS-7 mission in 1983.
- Eileen Collins was the first woman to command a space shuttle mission, on STS-93 in 1999.
- In April 2010 a record four women were in space at once at the International Space Station. Clockwise from left: Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger, Naoko Yamazake, Stephanie Wilson, and Tracy Caldwell Dyson.
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