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While women in a rocket were dominating the news cycle, the people who are really trying to conquer space are billionaire men ...
Blue Origin’s all-female flight drew headlines, but not progress. Visibility matters—but systemic change is what will truly launch women in space.
The whole exercise was emblazoned with such drippy femininity that all womankind was implicated. It was a test of the ...
This week, rocket company Blue Origin sent six women to the edge of space, the first time an all-female crew made the trip since Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova completed a three-day solo ...
Sixty years before pop star Katy Perry's 10-minute spaceflight, a factory worker from the Soviet Union created history, ...
Amanda Nguyễn, a rape survivor and activist, joined Blue Origin’s historic all-female space crew, becoming the first ...
Pop star Katy Perry and five other women safely returned to Earth after reaching space aboard Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin rocket ...
The pop star and five other women launched to suborbital space with Blue Origin this morning (April 14) from West Texas, performing the first all-female spaceflight since the Soviet Union's Valentina ...
Monday's mission was the first all-woman space crew since Valentina Tereshkova's historic solo flight in 1963. It is also the 11th sub-orbital crewed operation by Blue Origin, which has offered ...
But Perry believes an all-women crew — the first since Valentina Tereshkova's solo spaceflight in 1963 — has historic ramifications. Only 14 per cent of people who have gone to space so far ...
and film producer Kerianne Flynn — became the first all-women crew to visit space since Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova took a solo flight in 1963. However, celebrities like Amy Schumer ...
It is the first all-female crew since Russian engineer Valentina Tereshkova’s solo flight in 1963. They will reach 62 miles above Earth, technically entering space as the capsule crosses the ...