Astronaut Eileen Collins was the first female Space Shuttle pilot. #WorldSpaceWeek🚀 She piloted the Space Shuttle Discovery during mission STS-63 (1995), a mission that included the first-ever rendezvous between a US Space Shuttle and the Russian space station Mir. #WomenInSTEM

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Engineer & cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to fly in space in Vostok 6. She was just 26. #WorldSpaceWeek🚀 The only woman to ever fly a solo space mission. She spent 3 days alone in space & orbited the Earth 48 times...inside the little pod in the pic. Extraordinary. #WomenInSTEM

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#WomanAstro at work. 🔭🧪🚀📡 #WomeninSTEM #WomeninScience

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🤝We're teaming up with IAU CPS to keep the night sky dark and quiet. Satellites' reflected light and radio frequency interference challenge professional astronomy as well as simple stargazing 👉 www.esa.int/Space_Safety... Credit: F. Kamphues, ESO/M. Kornmesser

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Welcome home Crew-12!

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