Women Spacefarers (eBook)

Umberto Cavallaro is editor of AD*ASTRA, the quarterly Journal of AS.IT.AF (Italian Astrophilately Society). His professional activity led him to cooperate for many years with ESA, the European Space Agency. Author of “Propaganda e Pragmatismo in gara per la conquista della Luna” (“Propaganda & Pragmatism in race to the Moon” Impremix, Torino 2011) and “Donne nello Spazio” (“Women inSpace”, Mursia, Milano 2015), he has translated into Italian several publications, including “The All-American Boys” by Walter Cunningham, an Apollo VII astronaut.

Foreword.- Preface.- 1 Valentina Tereshkova: the icon of Soviet female emancipation.- 2 Svetlana Savitskaya: twice in space – the second Soviet first.- 3 Sally Ride: America’s pioneering woman in space.- 4 Judith Resnik: the second “Shuttlenaut”.- 5 Christa McAuliffe: “NASA Teacher in Space”.- 6 Kathryn D. Sullivan: the first American spacewalker.- 7 Anna Lee Fisher: the first mother in space.- 8 Margaret Rhea Seddon.- 9 Shannon Lucid: the first American woman to participate in a long-duration mission.- 10 Bonnie J. Dunbar: the first female astrocosmonaut in history.- 11 Mary L. Cleave: flying at age 14.- 12 Ellen Baker: an internist physician on the Shuttle.- 13 Kathryn Thornton: the “Space Walker Mom”.- 14 Marsha Ivins: aspiring astronaut at 19.- 15 Linda M. Godwin.- 16 Helen Sharman: the first Briton in space.- 17 Tamara Jernigan: an astrophysicist out among the stars.- 18 Millie Hughes-Fulford: the first female payload specialist.- 19 Roberta Bondar: the pioneer of space-medicine research.- 20 Nancy Jan Davis: growing up with the Saturn rockets.- 21 Mae Jemison: our limits are the stars.- 22 Susan J. Helms: three-star General.- 23 Ellen Ochoa: “Reach for the stars and let nothing limit your potential!”.- 24 Janice Voss: visits the International Space Station as a Cygnus Craft.- 25 Nancy Currie-Gregg: a passion for flying and concern for safety.- 26 Chiaki Mukai: the first Japanese astronaut.- 27 Elena Kondakova: the first woman to take part in a long-duration space mission.- 28 Eileen Collins: the first woman “Shuttlenaut” in the driver’s seat.- 29 Wendy Lawrence: the first woman astronaut of the US Navy.- 30 Mary E. Weber: from skydiving to Stellar Strategies.- 31 Cady Coleman: the colonel playing the flute in space.- 32 Claudie Haigneré: the first European Space Agency female astronaut.- 33 Susan Still Kilrain: the second woman to ever pilot the Shuttle.- 34 Kalpana Chawla: the regret of not officially visiting her native country.- 35 Kathryn Hire: the first American woman assigned to a combat aircrew.- 36 Janet Kavandi: the rewards of perseverance and tenacity.- 37 Julie Payette: “to assemble a ship in the ocean during a storm”.- 38 Pamela Melroy: “try to be true to yourself”.- 39 Peggy Whitson: the first woman commander of the International Space Station.- 40 Sandra Magnus: soaring to new heights.- 41 Laurel B. Clark: from deep oceans to the stars.- 42 Stephanie Wilson: “Madam Robotics Expert”.- 43 Lisa Nowak: the first woman astronaut ever dismissed from NASA.- 44 Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper: from diver to astronaut.- 45 Anousheh Ansari: the first Iranian spacewoman.- 46 Sunita Williams: a marathon runner in space.- 47 Joan Higginbotham: an unplanned adventure.- 48 Tracy Dyson: the lead vocalist for the all-astronaut band Max Q.- 49 Barbara Morgan: “I’ll fly with the eyes, ears, the heart and mind of a teacher”.- 50 Yi So-yeon: Korean “spaceflight participant”.- 51 Karen Nyberg: the marathoner engineer who competes with the space station.- 52 Megan McArthur: an aerospace engineer riding a pedal-powered submarine.- 53 Nicole Stott: a steady flying passion.- 54 Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger: from Space Camp to space station.- 55 Naoko Yamazaki: astronaut for 4,088 days.- 56 Shannon Walker: the first native Houstonian astronaut to fly into space with Russians.- 57 Liu Yang: the first taikonaut.- 58 Wang Yaping: a live lesson from the “Heavenly Palace”.- 59 Elena Serova: the first Russian woman cosmonaut on the International Space Station.- 60 Samantha Cristoforetti: a new record for endurance in space for a woman.- Appendix 1: List of space missions participated in by Women spacefarers.- Appendix 2: Extravehicular activities.- Appendix 3: Military astronauts.- Appendix 4: Astronauts married to astronauts.- Glossary.- Bibliography.- Index.