{"id":9042,"date":"2014-10-16T11:14:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T15:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9042"},"modified":"2014-10-16T11:14:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T15:14:40","slug":"video-women-in-space-pbs-makers-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9042","title":{"rendered":"Video: ‘Women in Space’ – PBS Makers documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"

PBS has posted a video of the documentary aired this week about the history of women space travelers: \u00a0Women in Space | MAKERS Season 2 | PBS<\/a>\u00a0–<\/p>\n

Makers: Women in Space\u00a0traces the history of women pioneers in the U.S. space program. Some, like aviators Wally Funk and Jerrie Cobb, passed the same grueling tests as male astronauts, only to be dismissed by NASA, the military, and even Lyndon Johnson, as a distraction. It wasn\u2019t until 1995 that Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot a spacecraft. The program includes interviews with Collins, as well as Sally Ride\u2019s classmates Shannon Lucid, Rhea Seddon and Kathryn Sullivan, and features Mae Jemison, the first woman of color astronaut, and Peggy Whitson, the first female commander of the International Space Station. The hour ends with the next generation of women engineers, mathematicians and astronauts\u2014the new group of pioneers, like Marleen Martinez, who continue to make small but significant steps forward.<\/em><\/p>\n