Female Astronauts On The Rise At NASA
**NASA (https://www.statista.com/topics/10369/nasa/) was an exclusively male workplace for a long time, but that is changing.**
As Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports, the first all-female spacewalk at the International Space Station was carried out in 2019 and many other milestones have already been accomplished by female astronauts. **But there has yet to be a first woman on the moon (or on Mars),** and since NASA is planning to return astronauts to the moon soon (https://www.statista.com/chart/18698/planned-missions-to-the-moon/), some female members who graduated as part of the newest 2017 and 2021 cohorts might just be the ones to achieve those firsts.
**The first women to graduate from NASA astronaut class were Sally Ride, Anna Fisher, Judith Resnik, Kathryn Sullivan, Margaret Rhea and Shannon Lucid, who entered the program in 1978.**
According toNASA (https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/astronaut_fact_book_june_2022.pdf) and Collect Space (http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-082013a.html), the number of women admitted to the program has risen, in total and as a share of aspiring astronauts.
**Ride became the first American woman in space (https://www.statista.com/topics/5049/space-exploration/), after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and Svetlana Savitskaya.**
Fisher became the first mother to fly in space.
Resnik tragically died in the 1986 Challenger explosion.
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While the latest 2021 cohort has a 42/58 percent (five women, seven men) split in favor of men, **2013 saw the first, albeit small, gender-equal astronaut cohort,** with four men and four women starting and later graduating NASA astronaut training.
Tyler Durden (https://cms.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden)Mon, 07/03/2023 - 23:30
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