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EPISODE · Jul 22, 2026 · 46 MIN

She created space for women astronauts

from Think from KERA · host KERA

Training to blast off in a rocket is one thing, but being the first mother in space turned out to be much harder. Anna Fisher was a NASA astronaut from 1996 to 2002, the chief of the Space Station branch of the Astronaut Office and the first mother in space. She joins host Krys Boyd to discuss her record as the longest serving astronaut at 36 years and 9 months, the ways her space flight became controversial and political, and about the trail she blazed for women today. She’s part of the new PBS documentary “Once Upon a Time in Space.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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