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Sunita Williams
Sunita Lyn Williams is a retired United States Navy captain and former NASA astronaut. Williams served aboard the International Space Station as a flight engineer for Expedition 14, Expedition 15, Expedition 32, and Expedition 71 and commander of Expedition 33 and Expedition 72. A member of NASA’s Commercial Crew program, she became the first woman to fly on a flight test of an orbital spacecraft during the 2024 Boeing Crew Flight Test and had her stay extended by technical problems aboard the ISS for more than nine months. She is one of the most experienced spacewalkers: her nine spacewalks are second-most by a woman, and her total spacewalk time of 62 hours and 6 minutes is fourth overall and the most by a woman.
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
American psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972)
Lisa Nowak
American naval flight officer and NASA astronaut
Mary Ellen Weber
American astronaut
Susan J. Helms
Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force and NASA astronaut
Bonnie J. Dunbar
American engineer and astronaut
Janice E. Voss
American engineer and NASA astronaut (1956-2012)
Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper
American naval officer and NASA astronaut
Mira Murati
Albanian-American business executive (born 1988)
Gwynne Shotwell
American business executive (born 1963)
Kathryn P. Hire
NASA astronaut and Captain in the U.S. Navy Reserve
Emily Warren Roebling
US civil engineer, helped complete the Brooklyn Bridge (1843-1903)
Marlene Schmidt
German actress
Mary Engle Pennington
American bacteriological chemist and refrigeration engineer (1872-1952)
Erna Schneider Hoover
American mathematician
Evelyn Miralles
NASA VR Engineer
Ellen Pao
American businesswoman and writer
Swati Mohan
Indian-American aerospace engineer
Elaine Luria
American naval officer and politician (born 1975)
Barbara Oakley
Translator, writer, engineer and teacher.
Sirisha Bandla
Indian-American aeronautical engineer and commercial astronaut
Deniz Burnham
Turkish engineer and NASA astronaut (born 1985)
Tracy Chou
American software engineer
Helen Greiner
American computer scientist, engineer and entrepreneur
Christine Sonali Merrill
Sri Lankan athlete
Samantha John
American engineer. computer programmer and business executive
Eleanor C. Pressly
American mathematician and aeronautical engineer
Cher Scarlett
American software engineer, writer, labor activist, and corporate whistleblower
Julie Ezold
nuclear engineer
Anastasia Muliana
researcher and professor in mechanical engineering
Dora Dougherty Strother
American military pilot
Karen Willcox
aerospace engineer and computational scientist
Heidi Shyu
American engineer
Dorothy Ruiz-Martínez
Mexican-American engineer
Shahzeen Attari
professor at Indiana University Bloomington
Olivia A Graeve
material science researcher
Margrit von Braun
American scientist and professor
Nina Tandon
tissue engineering researcher
Debbie Sterling
American engineer, businesswoman
Janet Petro
11th Director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center
Ivy Hooks
Mathematician and engineer