Mascara and strings of tampons: How Nasa's baffled engineers tried to prepare for the first female astronauts in space

In 1978 Nasa announced 35 new astronauts for a new era of spaceflight – and six of them were women. Here's how the Space Shuttle programme chipped away at one of Nasa's blind spots.
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Space shuttle : STS flights 1-5, incl. approach & landing tests : the NASA mission reports / compiled from the archives & edited by Robert Godwin

CD-ROM contains movies and images of the flights and postflight press conferences, and Space shuttle news reference handbook (HTML). System requirements: Windows 95 ...
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Space Shuttle Launch Delayed Until May 16th at Earliest

The countdown to the made-for-cable space event keeps getting delayed: the shuttle Endeavour's final launch is now scheduled for no earlier than Monday, May 16th. This is appears to be the fourth time ...
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Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply mission for NASA set to launch from Cape Canaveral

According to NASA, Northrop Grumman named the spacecraft the S.S. William “Willie” McCool, in memory of the pilot of the ill-fated STS-107 space shuttle ... launch will bring a sonic boom. The Falcon ...

SpaceX launches Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft for NASA from Cape Canaveral

14, the Northrop Grumman Cygnus XL spacecraft headed to the International Space Station on a resupply mission for NASA. Liftoff of the NG-23 mission occurred from Launch Complex ... the pilot of the ...