Women’s History MonthExpedition 56 Flight Engineer Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA is pictured in the Unity module during life support maintenance work to...Expedition 56 Flight Engineer Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA is pictured in the Destiny laboratory module with gear from the Marrow...Expedition 56 crew member Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA poses for pictures May 31 as she boards her Soyuz spacecraft during...Expedition 56 crew member Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA poses for pictures May 20 as she prepares to board the Soyuz...Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA lays flowers where Russian space icons are interred.Before there were computers and software that could stitch together digital images, they were printed on photo paper, trimmed by...Claudia Alexander, the project scientist overseeing NASA's support role in the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission, stands on the view...Not everyone gets to become a part of history, but mathematician Billie Robertson is one of the lucky ones. In...In 1976, Marshall engineers Carolyn Griner, Dr. Mary Helen Johnston, and Dr. Ann Whitaker completed training in Marshall’s Neutral Buoyancy...Known as the 'Mother of Hubble,' Nancy Grace Roman is shown here at the Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago in...Astronauts Joan Higginbotham (foreground) and Suni Williams refer to a procedures checklist as they work the controls of the Canadarm2,...Jeanette Scissum joined NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in 1964 after earning bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics from Alabama...Jeanette Scissum joined NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in 1964 after earning bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics from Alabama...In this image from 2009, NASA astronaut Stephanie Wilson is attired in a training version of her shuttle launch and...In the earliest days of space exploration, most calculations for early space missions were done by “human computers,” and most...At the Baikonur Museum in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 54-55 backup crew member Jeanette Epps of NASA views a model of...Hidden beneath Chamber A at the Johnson Space Center is an area engineers used to test critical contamination control technology...Samantha O’Flaherty, Test Engineer for Jacobs Technology Inc., finalizes the set-up of the Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) Preliminary Design Model...NASA's 2017 astronaut candidates take a group photo at Ellington Field near Johnson Space Center. Pictured are, front row, left...Jasmin Moghbeli has been selected by NASA to join the 2017 Astronaut Candidate Class. She will report for duty in...Expedition 50 Flight Engineer Peggy Whitson is suited up in the U.S. Quest airlock getting ready for her record-breaking eighth...Flight Director Brian Smith, Capcom Astronaut Jessica Meir along with Astronaut Jeff Williams monitor activities in Mission Control.Commander Peggy Whitson is working on the OsteoOmics bone cell study that utilizes the Microgravity Science Glovebox inside the U.S....534 days, 2 hours, 49 minutes and counting. NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson flew through the standing record for cumulative time...Dr. Nancy Grace Roman is shown with a model of the Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO) in 1962. She was the...On April 15, 2002, STS-110 Mission Specialist Ellen Ochoa works at the Remote Manipulator System controls on the aft flight...“Armstrong Flight Research Center chief pilot Nils Larson and I were flying supersonic runs to note the handling qualities between...Annie Easley at NASA Glenn Research Center. In 1955, Easley began her career at NASA, then the National Advisory Committee...January 1959. Women Scientists Lucille Coltrane, Jean Clark Keating, Katherine Cullie Speegle, Doris 'Dot' Lee, Ruth Whitman, and Emily Stephens...In this March 29, 1929 photograph, Pearl I. Young is working in the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory's Flight Instrumentation Facility...Event participants at one of the exhibitor tables in the Ohio Aerospace Institute.From left to right, acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot; "Hidden Figures" author Margot Lee Shetterly; “Hidden Figures” filmmaker Ted Melfi;...Jeanette Scissum joined NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in 1964 after earning bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics from Alabama...TDM 'Bridge Builder': Gina AndersonNASA astronaut Peggy Whitson collects Fundoscope images of the back of the eye during a routine check into astronaut eyesight.In the Press Site auditorium at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, members of the media participate in a news...Actress Octavia Spencer, left, who plays Dorothy Vaughan in the film "Hidden Figures" and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, right, greet...NASA Administrator Bolden presents an award to Katherine Johnson, the African American mathematician, physicist, and space scientist, who calculated flight...Computers attending lecture by Margot Shetterly in 2014: Several women who began their careers in NASA Langley's computer pool were...Photographs from Dorothy Vaughan's retirement party. Vaughan retired from NASA in 1971. Dorothy Vaughan began her career at the Langley...
