A Woman's Place is in Space
Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, was asked by NASA engineers if she wanted a hundred _____ in her flight kit for a seven day trip. “No,” she later recalled responding, “that would not be the right number.”
Tampons
If you like looking at fish far from the ocean you can thank Jeanne Villepreux-Power for inventing this glass apparatus in 1832.
Aquarium
Published in 1963, this supposedly semi-autobiographical novel has a central relationship between characters Joan Gilling and Esther Greenwood.
The Bell Jar
This multilingual, science journal published, Harvard graduate actress is brainy off and on screen. Having played a sci-fi space queen, a marvelous astrophysicist, a paranoid prima ballerina, a lovestruck medical doctor, an adulterous solider and a devastated first lady of the United States.
Natalie Portman
"Huston we have a problem"... that was solved by NASA aerospace engineer Judith Love Cohen. Her work on the Abort-Guidance System is credited with helping save the lives of the astronauts on this 1970s mission to the moon.
Apollo 13
In the 19th century Margret Knight invented this grocery store checkout staple... and the original was far more environmentally friendly than the plastic version that was produced long after her death.
Paper bag
Debuting in a popular 90s manga this character is one half of the only lesbian couple featured in the series. Her superhero persona is in part named after the Roman god of the sea.
Sailor Neptune
DAILY DOUBLE
The first black woman on the swimsuit cover of Sports Illustrated, she is also a New York Times bestselling author and creator of a popular reality competition show that "catwalked" for 24 seasons.