NASA/Jack Pfaller
A small piece of history will be made on the 5th April 2010, when the US shuttle Discovery takes off from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, headed for the International Space Station (ISS).
The crew of seven, including 3 women, will rendevouz at the ISS with a fourth US female astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson, who arrived there yesterday via a Russian Soyuz capsule.
And thus, the number of women in Space simultaneously will reach a record number of four, 27 years after the first US woman Sally Ride went into Space, and 47 years after the first ever woman in Space - Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova.
The crew of seven, including 3 women, will rendevouz at the ISS with a fourth US female astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson, who arrived there yesterday via a Russian Soyuz capsule.
And thus, the number of women in Space simultaneously will reach a record number of four, 27 years after the first US woman Sally Ride went into Space, and 47 years after the first ever woman in Space - Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova.
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