Nov 8, 2020

What do these women have in common?

By Jim Stroud • Issue #73 • View online

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Q: What do these women have in common?

Here is a picture of 5 black women who are out of this world beautiful. Can you guess what they all have in common?

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All of the women in this photo are ASTRONAUTS!

Left to right: Stephanie Wilson, Joan Elizabeth Higgenbotham, Mae Carol Jemison (center), Yvonne Cagle and Jeanette Epps to the right!

Stephanie D. Wilson | NASA

Stephanie D. Wilson is a veteran of three spaceflights, STS-121 in 2006, STS-120 in 2007, and STS-131 in 2010 and has logged more than 42 days in space.

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Astronaut Joan Higginbotham

During her nine-year tenure as an engineer at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Joan Higginbotham actively participated in 53 space shuttle launches – an impressive accomplishment for anyone. But when she returns to Kennedy for the launch of Discovery on STS-116, she’ll take “participation” to a whole new level: as astronaut Joan Higginbotham on her first shuttle mission.

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