KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Lanfang Levine, with Dynamac Corp., helps install a Dionex DX-500 IC/HPLC system in the Space Life Sciences Lab. The equipment will enable analysis of volatile compounds, such as from plants. The 100,000 square-foot facility houses labs for NASA’s ongoing research efforts, microbiology/microbial ecology studies and analytical chemistry labs. Also calling the new lab home are facilities for space flight-experiment and flight-hardware development, new plant growth chambers, and an Orbiter Environment Simulator that will be used to conduct ground control experiments in simulated flight conditions for space flight experiments. The SLS Lab, formerly known as the Space Experiment Research and Processing Laboratory or SERPL, provides space for NASA’s Life Sciences Services contractor Dynamac Corporation, Bionetics Corporation, and researchers from the University of Florida. NASA’s Office of Biological and Physical Research will use the facility for processing life sciences experiments that will be conducted on the International Space Station. The SLS Lab is the magnet facility for the International Space Research Park at KSC being developed in partnership with Florida Space Authority. (2004-01-05)NASA
From space exploration to medicine, women around the world have made essential contributions to the fields of science, engineering, technology and mathematics.
We have made a list of 5 facts you should know, but of course there are many, many, many more!
1. The Women of Space
Women have played an essential role in space exploration. For instance, they have been critical in the work of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for nearly a century.
Check out some of their work with Svetlana Savitskaya, Mae C. Jemison and more
2. Inventive Minds
The first ever American patent was given to a woman inventor, Sybilla Masters. Sybilla invented a new way of milling corn that changed agricultural practices.
Discover more inventions by women scientists here.
3. Code Breakers
Nearly 75% of the 10,000 person team working at Bletchley Park during WWII were women. Read more about their impactful work in code breaking here.
4. Did you know...
Two time Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie was the first woman to be appointed professor in a French university. During her research years, she was known to carry test tubes of radium around in the pocket of her lab coat.
Discover more about Marie Curie's groundbreaking work here.
5. The First Programmer
Ada Lovelace is known as history’s first programmer. However, it would take a while for Ada to be recognized as the genius she was, since computer programming didn’t drift into the mainstream for many years to come.
Learn more about Ada's work here
Prof. Asima Chatterjee with her Students (1997-09-23)Indian Academy of Sciences
Women from around the world have conducted research, made discoveries and broken down barriers that have changed STEM for ever.
