Pop quiz.
Name every female astronaut that's ever been aboard the International Space Station.
Okay...that's probably not a fair question, as in these blase space exploration times, I doubt if anyone could even name all the men who've been aboard the ISS.
Peggy Whitson is the first female commander of the International Space Station, and she's on board now, along with Russian flight engineer Yuri Malenchenko.
It's not Whitson's first time on the ISS - she was there for 184 days, 22 hours and 15 minutes in 2002.
For the complete article, see Astronauts 'Home' Again on Space Station, and I'll be doing an article on the crews of the ISS in one of the forthcoming issues of You Fly, Girl.
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