General Discussion

It's international womens' day, so I'm making a thread to celebrate some of my favorite women historical figures! I'm a spaceflight history nerd, so most of these will be people pertaining to that :0 [img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/312829312359464960/421454388016447489/tumblr_p561ebh6ZH1qigaa4o4_500.png[/img] Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space [img]https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Y2a8e1mt--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/iws2xos4mwsukh5hnjtr.jpg[/img] Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, and the first known LGBTQ+ person in space too! [img]https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8337/29320023973_0c2b76be87_b.jpg[/img] Ellen Ochoa, the first Latina woman in space [img]http://www.collectspace.com/images/news-011918d-lg.jpg[/img] Christa McAullife, the teacher who was to fly onboard STS-51L [img]https://www.biography.com/.image/t_share/MTUxMzAzMzgwNjMzOTIxMzU4/biography-mae-jemison.jpg[/img] Mae Jemison, the first African American woman in space [img]http://efh.cl/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Margaret_Hamilton_in_action-1.jpg[/img] Margaret Hamilton, who programmed a TON of the software for Apollo spacecraft! [img]https://www.hindustantimes.com/rf/image_size_960x540/HT/p2/2017/03/17/Pictures/astronaut-kalpana-chawla-seven-members-crew-the_38c770a0-0add-11e7-ba13-f6aef3964879.jpg[/img] Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian-born woman to go to space, also one of the STS-107 astronauts [img]https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/katherine_johnson_john_glenn.png[/img] Catherine Johnson, the incredible mathematician whose work was instrumental to the success of Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, AND Shuttle flights [img]http://www.collectspace.com/review/departure_barbaramorgan01.jpg[/img] Teacher and astronaut Barbara Morgan [img]https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/c0d812602ef1d1b3d1d9d76380f78cdbcceb2764/c=0-69-512-358&r=x803&c=1600x800/local/-/media/2015/03/17/IAGroup/DesMoines/635622277441172628-9415019527-57aba28aaa-z.jpg[/img] The incredibly experienced Peggy Whitson [img]http://image.cleveland.com/home/cleve-media/width960/img/plain-dealer/photo/2016/01/28/-663bb162fd19654c.jpg[/img] Marianne Dyson, one of NASA's first female flight controllers, because with this username, I can't just NOT have some Mission Control in this post Anyways, those are some from my favorite area of history! Who are some of your favorite woman historical figures?

Honestly, Mary Shelley is such an interesting person and I love her a lot?? And did I mention that she was one of the earliest science-fiction writers (if not [i]the[/i] earliest), so her contribution to literature is obviously pretty important. [img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/RothwellMaryShelley.jpg/220px-RothwellMaryShelley.jpg[/img] Also here's a Jane Austen because she's super rad as well: [img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/CassandraAusten-JaneAusten%28c.1810%29_hires.jpg/200px-CassandraAusten-JaneAusten%28c.1810%29_hires.jpg[/img] I'd also throw in Toni Morrison because her writing style is amazing, but I'm not sure if she really counts since she's still alive (from what I know). Also finding photos of living people weirds me out for some reason. :"^)

[img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/97/Rosalind_Franklin.jpg/220px-Rosalind_Franklin.jpg[/img] Rosalind Franklin, an X-ray crystallographer who studied the structure of DNA, RNA, viruses, and graphite and was shafted a Nobel for her work on DNA. [img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Rachel-Carson.jpg/220px-Rachel-Carson.jpg[/img] Rachel Carson, who's pretty much who I want to be? Marine biologist, conservationist, and author best known for showing the devastating effects of the pesticide DDT in her book Silent Spring. [img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Mary_Anning_painting.jpg/220px-Mary_Anning_painting.jpg[/img] Mary Anning, an amateur palentologist who discovered a seriously large amount of important fossils. She was never able to actually get a job in science because sexism, but she was pretty much one of the earliest fossil experts.

These ladies are AWESOME! Thanks for posting this!