Space Explorers: The View from Outer Space
On the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1982, she became the first American woman to go up in space.
He went from Boy Scout to aerospace engineer to first African American in space as an astronaut on the Challenger flight.
John Glenn on his hero, his wife: Annie inspired a lot of people to get treatment for their disabilities. Through the American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA), she would meet with people to tell her story and how she stuck with her treatment. by John Glenn
Her first mission was aboard the STS 61-A Challenger. Bonnie Dunbar also started a scholars program for students in aerospace and engineering.
The most famous Russian cosmonaut, Yuri has experienced four space flights.
Scientists: Making Space Exploration Possible
First to use a telescope to observe the stars and planets.
First woman astronomer.
Instrumental in the first artificial Earth satellite, reaching the Moon and Venus, and the first flight of Yuri Gagarin
Researches the evolution of the solar system through planetary bodies like asteroids and comets.
Her research helped prove the existence of a black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
Women in Astronomy
Astronomical Society of the Pacific Website
"Who Are the Black Astronomers and Astrophysicists?"
State University of New York at Buffalo
World Space Week
From the UN World Space Week site
NASA
Official site of NASA
Hubble Site
Official Site of the Hubble Spacecraft
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