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Nearly 50 years after the first woman (from the Soviet Union) was launched into space, NASA has set a new record. Space Shuttle Discovery has recently taken off with three women, Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, 34-years-old, Stephanie Wilson, 43-years-old, and Naoko Yamazaki, 39-years-old. The three women, in? addition? to Tracy Caldwell Dyson, 40-years-old (who? was already in orbit),? set a record.? A record that has come near the end of the NASA program.
“Maybe that’s a credit to the system, right, that I don’t think of it as male or female?” said Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA’s associate administrator for space operations. “I just think of it as a talented group of people going to do their job in space.”