Women in STEM

NASA Images

Jacqueline cochran,  the first woman to break the sound barrier

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and space research

Women Pioneers in Space

Astronaut Serena Auñón on the International Space Station

Samantha Cristoforetti honors Leonard Nimoy on ISS shows Vulcan hand sign

NASA Astronaut Karen Nyberg, Expedition 36 flight engineer

Aviator Sheila Scott, first person to fly over North Pole in front of single engine plane in 1971

Flight engineer Cady Coleman, wearing Extravehicular Mobility Unit gloves

Flight director Ginger Kerrick monitors controllers on console in mission control

Astronaut Naoko Yamazaki on the AFT Flight Deck of Shuttle Discovery

Canadian Space Agency astronaut Julie Payette floating

Astronaut Peggy A Whitson, Expedition 16 commander, prepares the Capillary Flow

Columbia Commander Eileen Collins consults a checklist in flight deck

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

Shuttle Challenger's Mission Specialist (MS) Sally Ride, Astronaut

Female researcher running experiment with the EVA Exercise Device

Pilot Neta Snook Southern emerges from a Flight Simulator

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

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

Mathematician at work with a microscope

Cleveland, OH - USA, 1 January 1955: Human computer Annie Easley at NACA’s Lewis Research Center

View of Mission Specialist Judith Resnik on the middeck

Astronauts Sally Ride and Kathryn Sullivan aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger

Commander Pam Melroy is photographed in the Orbiter Docking Compartment

Biochemist Shannon W Lucid, former cosmonaut researcher, checks on wheat plants on space shuttle

Astronaut Sally Ride with Launch and Entry Helmet At NASA's Johnson Space Center

Scientist Dr Nancy Roman pictured with a model

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

Mathematician and Aerospace Engineer Mary Jackson at NASA

Astronaut Kay Hire greeting two young girls

Astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan mission specialist aboard the Challenger

Portrait of NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson

Astronaut and mission specialist Judith Arlene Resnik

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

Astronaut Janice Voss floating with a camera and cable in hand

Ginger Kerrick the first person of Hispanic heritage to lead Mission Control

First six women astronauts with rescue ball at NASA

Aviator Fay Wells with the Winnie Mae Fay Gillis airplane

Mission specialist Ellen Ochoa beside the Volatile Removal Assembly Flight Experiment

Mission Specialist Ellen Ochoa, in the aft flight deck, playing a flute

Portrait of astronaut Dr. Mae C. Jemison

Portrait of astronaut Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, first woman to space walk

Diana Trujillo, mission lead and Deputy Team Chief of the engineering division

Astronaut Christa McAuliffe in training in 1985

Astronauts Dr. Jan Davis & Dr. Mae Jemison aboard Space Shuttle Endeavor

Astronaut Nicole Stott trains in aquarium in simulation space craft

Astronaut N. Jan Davis pictured at work station for Remote Manipulator System

Amelia Earhart standing in front of the Lockheed Electra in which she disappeared

The Aerosol Particle Analyzer, held by Theresa Thibodeau, flew on one of the Apollo earth orbital

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