{"id":14173,"date":"2010-04-07T08:10:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T08:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/women-of-the-world-literally\/"},"modified":"2010-04-07T08:10:51","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T08:10:51","slug":"women-of-the-world-literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/nasa\/women-of-the-world-literally.php","title":{"rendered":"Women of the World. Literally!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/shuttle\/shuttlemissions\/sts131\/index.html\">STS-131<\/a> Space Shuttle Discovery lit up the dawn sky this morning as she broke free from gravity&rsquo;s grip to reach low Earth orbit on her way to the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/main\/index.html\">International Space Station<\/a>.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/cfd0a_153212main_131-launch-425-1.jpg\" alt=\"Lift off! STS-131 Space Shuttle Discovery. Photo: NASA TV\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><span><\/span><\/p><p>Onboard Discovery, three female astronauts: NASA&rsquo;s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsc.nasa.gov\/Bios\/htmlbios\/metcalf-lindenburger-dm.html\"> Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger <\/a>and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsc.nasa.gov\/Bios\/htmlbios\/wilson.html\">Stephanie Wilson<\/a> and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsc.nasa.gov\/Bios\/htmlbios\/yamazaki-n.html\">Naoko Yamazaki <\/a>of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. They will join Space Station&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/main\/index.html\">Expedition 23<\/a> crewmember&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsc.nasa.gov\/Bios\/htmlbios\/caldwell.html\">Tracy Caldwell Dyson<\/a>.<\/p><p><strong>Four women in space at the same time! How cool is that?!? <\/strong><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/cfd0a_spacewomen4.jpg\" alt=\"Tracy, Dottie, Stephanie, Naoko\" width=\"400\" height=\"101\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p>Naoko will tweet during the mission. You can follow&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/astro_naoko\">@Astro_Naoko<\/a> in English AND Japanese. Space Station is like our&nbsp;Space United Nations&nbsp;<em>(S.U.N)<\/em> with multiple nationalities and languages.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/astro_naoko\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/cfd0a_astro_naoko.jpg\" alt=\"Tweet from @astro_Naoko\" width=\"337\" height=\"166\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p>Not only did we launch three female astronauts into space onboard a rocketship this morning to join the fourth on Space Station, but we also launched our&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/about\/highlights\/garver_bio.html\">NASA Deputy Lori Garver<\/a> into the Twittersphere with her first tweet from launch at the Kennedy Space Center. You can follow her tweets&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/lori_Garver\">@Lori_Garver<\/a>.<\/p><p><strong>In fact, one of Lori&rsquo;s first tweets inspired this blogpost.<\/strong><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/images\/content\/376607main_200908050001HQ.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/cfd0a_picture-5.png\" alt=\"NASA's Deputy Lori Garver. Photo: NASA\" width=\"366\" height=\"328\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p>Lori also launched her&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Lori-Garver\/109555615732469?ref=mf\">Facebook fan<\/a> page this morning.&nbsp;NASA&rsquo;s social media presence ROCKets!<\/p><p><strong>So, girls out there in the universe: Take hope. Aim high. Work hard. Never let a little &ldquo;no&rdquo; stop you. Your WORLD awaits you, as we have proof today.<\/strong><\/p><p>Crosspost on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.govloop.com\/profiles\/blogs\/women-of-the-world-literally\">GovLoop<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bethbeck.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/05\/women-of-the-world-literally\/\">BethBeck&rsquo;s Blog<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STS-131 Space Shuttle Discovery lit up the dawn sky this morning as she broke free from gravity&rsquo;s grip to reach low Earth orbit on her way to the&nbsp;International Space Station.Onboard Discovery, three female astronauts: NASA&rsquo;s Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger and&nbsp;Stephanie Wilson and&nbsp;Naoko &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/nasa\/women-of-the-world-literally.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nasa"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}