Women in Space – Pivot

Space flight, in mid-April, of a shuttle from Jeff Bezos Blue Origin's company (the SpaceX competitor of Elon Musk) brought to the forefront the relationship of women to space and, more broadly, certain issues – particularly ecological ones – surrounding space exploration and tourism. The crew of this very recent suborbital flight was indeed the first entirely feminine flight since the solo flight of the Soviet Valentina Terechkova in 1963. It t…