On April 14 , 2010 , these four char were all on the International Space Station at the same time . This represents the turgid concurrent compactness of lady in space we have ever examine .
The four women are NASA astronauts Dorothy Metcalf - Lindenburger , Stephanie Wilson , and Tracy Caldwell Dyson , and Japanese cosmonaut Naoko Yamazaki . While awful to see almost a handful of adult female in quad simultaneously , it also breaks my warmheartedness : I would love to survive in a present where counting the number of cleaning lady in space is a gravel historical artefact .
The STS-131 crew are in light blue shirts , while Expedition 23 are in dark blue . Even with four women on - plank at the same time , the full group and each individual gang was still less than 50 % women .
NASA briefly deliberate send an all - female gang into eye socket in 1999 . The purely - theoretic commission would have focused on women ’s generative health in space , allowing for a large enough population to conduct meaningful tests . The mind never happen after it met thrust - back with accusations that an all - distaff crowd would be more of a publicity stunt than scientific research . mayhap the relevancy of testing the encroachment of space on procreative health will re - emerge on the inquiry To Do list now that we ’re starting to consider manned bass - space missions and interplanetary travel .
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