Houston: Three women, who are amid the seven aggregation associates of amplitude shuttle Discovery slated to lift off on April 5 for the International Amplitude Station, accept alleged for added women to appoint in space-related jobs.
At a preflight account appointment captivated bygone at NASA's Johnson Amplitude Center here, 39-year-old Naoko Yamazaki of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said she wants added adolescent women to be absorbed in science and engineering.
She said that she herself was aggressive by Chiaki Mukai, the aboriginal Japanese changeable astronaut who flew in amplitude alert in 1994 and 1998.Female astronauts Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger and Stephanie Wilson were additionally present at the columnist conference.
It will be the aboriginal time back 1999 and the third time that three women accept boarded a amplitude shuttle. They are accepted to accompany addition woman in a abiding mission on the ISS, bringing the cardinal of women accordingly in amplitude to four for the aboriginal time.
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