Ponytail Journal

In 1960, Dr. Randy Lovelace invited Jerrie Cobb into his private clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He recruited her as the first participant in his secret and privately funded woman in the Space program. The program aims to examine which gender was more qualified and ideal to fly into space. To pro…

Have you ever wondered how astronauts do their laundry up in space? Is there a cosmic laundromat that vacuum and wash it? In this post, we explore how much clothes the astronauts need and how they took care of their dirty laundry. Like us here on earth, astronauts work, exercise, and go to sleep....

On June 16, 1963, Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first person who wore the world's first Mission Patch. This record was surprisingly unknown by many; possibly overshadowed by her pioneering achievement of being the first woman in space, or perhaps it was simply hidden from sight. Un...

Pen and Pencil are indisputable examples of a communications technology. Depending on the use, we switch between them to put down ideas and store information. In outer space, astronauts rely on these commodity tools to log and record scientific experiments. Here, we look at the evolution of the writ…

Two female NASA astronauts made space history by completing the first-ever spacewalk by an all-woman team. Though the all-woman spacewalk wasn't something NASA purposefully planned it was bound to happen eventually because of the milestones made by women who paved the way to space. Cosmonaut Sve...

At the bottom of the seafloor of U.S. Virgin Islands' Lameshur Bay, lies the Tektite Habitat, patiently waiting for the all-female aquanauts to splashdown into one of the most isolating, and privacy invasion two weeks missions of the 70s - Tektite II By partly funding this program, NASA's ultima...