NASA Engineers thought Sally Ride would need 100 tampons for one week in space. Ride, who became the first American woman in ...
but their journey there required all kinds of world firsts from engineers on the ground. Chief among those tasks was designing the first space suit that could sustain life on a natural satellite.
In fact, NASA's first all-female spacewalk was postponed because the space station had only one medium-sized suit. This milestone ... spacesuits dwindling, NASA engineers face a new kind of ...