Aeronautics
Astronautics
Female Firsts
Female Firsts, Pt.2
Miscellaneous
100

This woman is one of the most famous female pilots in history. She disappeared in the central Pacific in 1937, and her plane has never been found.

Who was Amelia Earhart?

100
This woman, a Soviet cosmonaut, became the first woman to make it to space.

Who is Valentina Tereshkova?

100
This woman was the first African American woman in space.

Who is Mae Jemison?

100

Women have worked in a variety of aeronautical/astronautical fields, including _____.

Pilots, astronauts, aeronautical engineers, computers, air traffic controllers, etc.
100

This First Lady of the United States was a friend of Amelia Earhart's and a champion of womens' rights in America.

Who was Eleanor Roosevelt?

200
This woman was the first African American and Native American woman to hold a pilots license.

Who was Bessie Coleman?

200

This woman, an American astronaut, was the third woman in total, and first American woman, in space.

Who was Sally Ride?

200

This person was the first woman to break the sound barrier. 

Who was Jacqueline Cochran?

200

This woman, a U.S. astronaut, currently holds the record for the longest time continuously spent in space by a woman.

Who was Christina Koch?

200
This word is the feminine equivalent to "aviator," though it has fallen out of modern use.

What is "aviatrix"?

300
Amelia Earhart was the first woman to make a nonstop _____________ flight.

What is "transatlantic"?

300

This country has had the most women astronauts, with over half of women astronauts launching for this country.

What is the United States of America?

300

This person, in 1903, was the first woman to pilot a motorized aircraft (an airship).

Who was Aida de Acosta?

300
Starring in 2016's Drama/Historical film Hidden Figures, this aerospace technologist was the main character, played by Taraji P. Henson.

Who was Katherine Johnson (Goble)?

300

Katherine Johnson (Goble) was instrumental in assisting the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with these two space programs.

What are the Apollo and Mercury programs?

400

This woman, sister to aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright, assisted the brothers in many of their aviation pursuits and was a well-known womens' rights activist.

Who was Katharine Wright?

400

On this date, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space.

What is June 16, 1963?

400
This person, along with seven others in France, became the first woman to earn a pilot's license on March 8, 1910.

Who was Raymonde de Laroche?

400
The first all-female spacewalk occurred in the year ____.

What is 2019?

400

Many women in aeronautical engineering and mathematics worked as this now-defunct profession.

What is a computer?

500

This woman, from France, was the first woman to ever take flight (using a hot air balloon) in 1784.

Who was Marie Élisabeth Thible?

500

As of March 14, 2025, ___ women have completed spaceflights.

What is 102?

500

This woman, in 1937, was the first to pilot a helicopter. 

Who was Hanna Reitsch?

500

This woman was NASA's first Chief of Astronomy.

Who was Nancy Roman?

500

Name one way to increase the presence of women in our aeronautics, astronautics, or aviation programs.

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