To celebrate the discovery of Saturn’s moon Titan, we will meet a former Chief NASA Scientist who had the radical idea to explore Titan – by boat!
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March 9th is the anniversary of the announcement of the first discovery of extraterrestrial volcanic activity by astronomer Linda Morabito.
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Kitty O’Brien was the first female engineer hired by NACA, the predecessor of NASA.
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When the first women-only team led the Mars Exploration Rovers for a day, Dr. Barbara Cohen was the leader of that team.
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Peggy Whitson always wanted to be an astronaut and she achieved her dream, becoming the first woman to command the ISS.
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Aprille Ericsson-Jackson is an aerospace engineer at NASA, and was the first African-American woman to get a PhD in engineering at Howard University.
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Dr. Laurel Clark was a decorated Navy medic before she became an astronaut aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia.
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Today marks the thirtieth anniversary of the tragic explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger which killed its seven crew members including mission specialist Judith Resnik.
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Roberta Bondar was both the first neurologist and the first Canadian woman in space.
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