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With Wings to Fly - Page 2


© Katie Anne Gustafsson
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Nov 16, 1999


Not content to fly the earthly routes, women have also made their mark in space flight. Although it took until 1983 for an American woman to be allowed into space, this was 20 after the first woman, Valentina Tereshkova, travelled beyond the earth's skies. Since then, however, NASA has become more gender friendly and in 1995, Lt. Col. Eileen Collins was the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle Discovery.

In 1928, Amelia Earhart is quoted to have said "Ours is the commencement of the flying age, and I am so happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting". I wonder if she could ever have envisaged what aviation would become, and that women would be part of the history making process. I am sure that if her spirit is still soaring across the skies she loved, she would be well-pleased with the way women have progressed in flight over the past 80 years.

Katie-Anne '99

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2.   Nov 18, 1999 6:21 AM
Thanks Lynne. I learned a lot too with this article. Women took to the skies earlier than I thought, and I hadn't realised that it still isn't usual for military women to fly in combat. This job is ...

-- posted by KatieAnne
1.   Nov 18, 1999 6:05 AM
I thoroughly enjoyed this topic and article.
I hadn't realized that there was so much about
woman's aviation that I didn't know!

I walked away from this article with so much
new information abou ...

-- posted by Lynne_Remick



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