NASA's 6th Annual Virtual Take Our Daughters To Work Day

NASA invites you to interact with our nation's coolest, brightest, most intriguing and talented women and men who develop and utilize breakthrough technologies that benefit our world!

Historical NASA Women

Meet some of our historical NASA women through their online profiles, biographies, photographs and vidoes, archived webchats and webcasts, and related links.

• Mae Jemison / First African American Female Astronaut
  
• Sally Ride / First Female American Astronaut in space
  
• Kathy Sullivan / First American Female Astronaut to walk in space
• Shannon Lucid Astronaut holding mission space flight endurance record for six months on Mir/ Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
  
• Ellen Ochoa First Hispanic Female Astronaut / Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
• Eileen Collins Astronaut, First Female Pilot and Commander of a Space Shuttle / Johnson Space Center
• Shirley, Donna Manager, Mars Exploration Program , Aerospace Engineer / Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Dee O'Hara / First nurse to NASA's first astronauts
  
• Nancy Grace Roman / Astronomer, developed NASA space astronomy program and recently finished writing a history of the NASA astronomy program.
  

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