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1973
Emily Howell Warner is the first woman working as a pilot for a
commercial airline, Frontier Airlines (January 29).
U.S. Navy
announces pilot training for women.
1974
Mary Barr becomes the first woman pilot with the U.S. Forest
Service.
Sally Murphy is
the first woman to qualify as an aviator with the U.S. Army
(June 4).
Mary Helen
Johnston, Ann Whitaker, Carolyn Griner, and Doris Chandler
comprised an all-women space team for experiments at the
Marshall Space Flight Center.
1977
Congress passes a bill recognizing WASP of World War II as
military personnel, and President Jimmy Carter signs the bill
into law.
1978
International Society of Women Airline Pilots formed.
The first women
joined the astronaut corps: Rhea Seddon, Kathryn D. Sullivan,
Judith A. Resnick, Sally K. Ride, Anna L. Fisher, and Shannon W.
Lucid.
1983
Sally Ride, Ph. D., becomes the first American woman to fly in
space (June 18).
1984
Kathryn D. Sullivan, Ph. D., becomes the first American woman to
walk in space.
1991
Lt. Col. Eileen Collins, USAF, becomes the first female space
shuttle pilot.
1992
Mae Jemison, M.D., becomes the first African American woman in
space.
1994
Vicki Van Meter is the youngest pilot (to that date) to fly
across the Atlantic in a Cessna 210. She is 12 years old at the
time of the flight.
Jackie Parker
becomes the first woman to qualify to fly an F-16 combat plane
(April 21).
1995
In the same month, Beverly Burns becomes the first woman to
captain a 747 cross country, and Lynn Rippelmeyer becomes the
first woman to captain a 747 across the Atlantic.
1999
Col. Eileen Collins, USAF,
becomes the first woman to command a space shuttle mission.
2001
Polly Vacher becomes the first woman to fly around the world in
a small plane—she flies from England to England on a route
that includes Australia.
2006
Capt. Nicole Malachowski, USAF, makes her debut as the first
female pilot on the USAF Thunderbird Air Demonstration Squadron.
Anousheh Ansari
becomes the first female Muslim and first Iranian in space. She
is also the first female space tourist to fly to the
International Space Station and the first person to publish a
blog from space.
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