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NASA Images

Jerrie Cobb, female pilot, testing gimbal rig in AWT description

Astronaut Nicole Stott trains in aquarium in simulation space craft

Melba Roy headed the group of NASA mathematicians, known as "computers"

Biologist Ellen Weaver, associate professor of biology from California State University

Portrait of Eileen M Collins shown wearing orange Launch and Entry Suit with helmet

Samantha Cristoforetti honors Leonard Nimoy on ISS shows Vulcan hand sign

Payload specialist Millie Hughes-Fulford checks the Research Animal Holding Facility

Pilot Neta Snook Southern emerges from a Flight Simulator

Mission specialist Ellen Ochoa beside the Volatile Removal Assembly Flight Experiment

Astronaut Kay Hire greeting two young girls

Jacqueline Cochran being sworn in as a consultant by NASA administrator James E. Webb

Columbia Commander Eileen Collins consults a checklist in flight deck