Women in Space

Running head : THE WOMEN WHO MADE THEIR MARKS IN SPACE TRAVEL

The Women who made their marks in the History of Space Travel

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The Women who made their marks in the History of Space Travel

Space travel indeed is the utmost adventure ever to ignite the interest of the human race to explore the unknown . It is their chance to explore the moon , the planets , the stars and beyond . Giant rockets lift off with roaring blast

of orange flame . They reach for the blue skies and leave a trail of white line . They are headed into space where the vast skies above them are all black . The only light that shines are that of the guiding stars which look down upon them

Astronauts and cosmonauts gamble their lives in the look out for information about the earth , moon , planets , stars and the effects of weightlessness on human beings and other living things . The National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA chooses two kinds of astronauts for space flights - pilot astronauts and mission specialists Pilot astronauts command and control spacecraft . Mission specialists take care of the spacecraft and its equipment , conducts tests , puts into orbit the satellites and carries out the other activities (Hamilton 2001

The space shuttle was the first manned spacecraft intended to be reusable . It allows space flights to be scheduled on a routine basis On a typical mission , the shuttle rockets into space with its crew remains in orbit for about a week , and then lands on the earth like an airplane . It can be ready for another flight in about four weeks (Imaginova Corporation , 2008

The space shuttles were designed to carry artificial satellites , space probes , and other heavy loads into orbit around the earth . Other spacecraft can launch such objects , but only the space shuttle can be reused . Each shuttle was intended to be used more then 100 times . In addition to launch operations , the shuttles can recover artificial satellites that need repair . Satellites that cannot be repaired in space can be brought back to the Earth and then sends - off again after they are serviced . The shuttle also could permit astronauts to create and maintain manned space stations and solar power stations in earth orbit (Imaginova Corporation , 2008

The first woman in space , cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova , made 45 revolutions around the earth in 1963 . Twenty years later , astronaut Sally K . Ride became the first American woman in space . In June 1983 Ride orbited the earth with four other crew members on a six - day mission aboard the space shuttle Challenger (Hamilton , 2001

During the early years of the space age , success in space became a measure of a country 's leadership in science , engineering and national defense . As a result , the United States and the Soviet Union competed with one another in developing their space programs . Each of them , for example , sought to build better rockets and spacecrafts than the...