Source: Good News Network
25 years ago today, retired Air Force Col. Eileen Collins became the first woman astronaut to pilot a Space Shuttle when the NASA Discovery shuttle blasted off. She also later became the first woman commander of a Space Shuttle in her distinguished 16-year career with NASA.
(1994)MORE Good News on this Date:
- The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, granting voting rights to all men regardless of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude,” which still allowed state laws to deny the same rights to women or black citizens who couldn’t afford to pay a poll tax or pass a written test (1870)
- 125 years ago, Norman Rockwell, the iconic American illustrator, was born (1894)
- History’s first embryo transfer from one woman to another resulted in a live birth at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, thanks to Dr. John Buster and his research team (1984)
- Mother Teresa was visited in her home for the sick and dying in Calcutta by the Pope who helped feed…
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