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How Nice: NASA's Giving the Entire Eastern Seaboard a Complimentary Light Show Tonight

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Usually, watching a NASA rocket launch from your home is something reserved for Floridians, but tonight, that’s an honor offered to a huge swath of the Northeastern American coast (if those pesky clouds stay out of the way). So if you find yourself gazing towards the Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia (as you often do of an evening, longingly, and with hope fluttering in your heart), and you see some scattered red contrails, know that we are not being invaded by aliens. It’s just NASA running space tests on our upper atmosphere! In fact, if you live anywhere within the yellow circle below, you’ve got a chance at seeing it:

Source: themarysue.com NASA space! science! stargazing
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spacewatching: “ Marjorie Townsend discusses the X-ray Explorer Satellite’s performance with a colleague during preflight tests at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Townsend, a Washington DC native, was the first woman to receive an engineering...
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Marjorie Townsend discusses the X-ray Explorer Satellite’s performance with a colleague during preflight tests at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Townsend, a Washington DC native, was the first woman to receive an engineering degree from The George Washington University. She joined NASA in 1959 and later advanced to become the project manager of the Small Astronomy Satellite (SAS) Program.

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wildcat2030: “ Mae Jemison fulfilled a childhood dream to travel to space. Now she wants to take humanity to the stars. Today, Mae Jemison may be best known as the first black female astronaut to travel to space, but someday she could be known for...
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Mae Jemison fulfilled a childhood dream to travel to space. Now she wants to take humanity to the stars. Today, Mae Jemison may be best known as the first black female astronaut to travel to space, but someday she could be known for something much more monumental. That’s because she is now at the helm of what could well be the most audacious project ever imagined: a Pentagon-funded effort meant to lead within 100 years to a spaceship that will take humans to the stars. The 100-Year Starship, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), isn’t about building the Starship Enterprise, at least not yet. Rather, it’s about creating a nonprofit organization that can sustain efforts over the next century to enable interstellar travel. The Dorothy Jemison Foundation, headed by Mae Jemison, was selected earlier this year to lead the 100-Year Starship. This week the foundation announced its plans for shooting for the stars. First on the agenda is a gathering of scientists and the public in Houston, Texas, to discuss ways to advance interstellar travel. (via BBC - Future - Science & Environment - 100-Year Starship: Mae Jemison reaches for the stars)

Source: bbc.com space! Mae Jemison
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fuckyeahfemaleastronauts: “ Yi So-Yeon signing the wall of the helicopter that picked Peggy Whitson, Yuri Malenchenko and her up after landing in Kazakhstan in 2008. The Soyuz TMA-11 landing was the first time since the flight of Valentina Tereshkova...
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Yi So-Yeon signing the wall of the helicopter that picked Peggy Whitson, Yuri Malenchenko and her up after landing in Kazakhstan in 2008. 

The Soyuz TMA-11 landing was the first time since the flight of Valentina Tereshkova that women outnumbered men on a spacecraft. They had a rough ride home since the propulsion module failed to separate from the reentry module, a failure which also happened on the TMA-1 and TMA-10. Althought TMA-1 and TMA-10 were all male crews, Anatoly Perminov, head of the Russian Federal Space Agency, still managed to show sexist bigotry when he blamed the number of women aboard for the failure. 

Source: novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru Yi So-Yeon Peggy Whitson Yuri Melenchenko astronauts cosmonauts space! women