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Namira Salim is the first Pakistani to have reached both the North Pole in April 2007 and the South Pole in January 2008, respectively. She is also the first woman from Monaco and Dubai (UAE), her adopted countries, to have reached the two poles. [13] [14] [15] At both poles, she hoisted the national flags of Pakistan, the UAE, Monaco and peace ...
A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos ever of Mercury’s north pole. The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles (295 kilometers) above ...
Female graduates of the Space Force officer candidate school at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. There have been women in the United States Space Force since the branch's inception in 2019. It is the only branch of the United States military where women have always had equal roles. [1] [2] On 23 July 2020 the Space Force obtained its first all ...
The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface. It is called the True North Pole to distinguish from the Magnetic North Pole .
By: Troy Frisby/Patrick Jones, Buzz60 NASA's new pictures of Earth are reigniting conspiracy theories straight out of "Journey to the Center of the Earth."
Recently released photos of two NASA astronauts stranded aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have caused health concerns to rise. Although Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore were ...
Barbara Hillary (June 12, 1931 – November 23, 2019) [1] [2] was an American Arctic explorer, nurse, publisher, adventurer and inspirational speaker. Born in New York City, she attended The New School, from which she earned bachelor's and master's degrees in gerontology.
He was able to fund the unofficial program, the Woman in Space program, [1] and invited 25 women to come and take the physical tests. Lovelace was interested in the way that women's bodies would react to being in space. Cobb was the first American woman (and the only one of the Mercury 13) to undergo and pass all three phases of testing.