'The airplane does not know the gender of the person sitting in the seat.'
crew were lucky. They were coming home because of flight rules; all three healthy fuel cells were needed for shuttle missions to generate electricity, no matter what. Since the astronauts weren't facing down an extremely urgent event like a fire, they could somewhat choose the timing of their arrival for maximum success.
NASA also gave the entire mission a rerun later in 1997, complete with the same crew. Columbia was refurbished and the fuel cells worked flawlessly during STS-94, a 15-day mission in July 1997 dedicated to science experiments with the European Space Agency's Spacelab module. Retired from the astronaut office in 2003, Kilrain remains active as a space advocate and said she sees her role today as working for gender parity in the community.
"Folks like myself take an important role in mentoring young ladies that are coming through traditionally male fields like engineering," she said,"and also moving women ... up in the power structure of an organization, like making them leaders." Women's History Month was officially recognized by the United States Congress in 1987, but follows almost a century of other commemorations in March concerning women,
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