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More women should actively participate in space flight. There are many well educated women working in the space industry; they are very good candidates.

Paternalistic regulations often prohibit women from holding jobs in certain industries: In the Russian Federation, women cannot drive trucks in the agriculture sector; in Belarus, they cannot be carpenters; in Kazakhstan, they cannot be welders.

Not until the space shuttle started flying did NASA concede that some astronauts didn't have to be fast-jet pilots. And at that point, sure enough, women started becoming astronauts.

Space is not an enterprise that belongs to the U.S. or to Russia or to China - it is a human endeavor and experience. And that's as it should be.

Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the creations of science. Although women have not taken full advantage of its use and benefits, air travel is as available to them as to men.

There are so many women who contributed in a very real way in pushing for the space program during the time in which there was a lot of competition to get into space first, and to know that there were African-American women who were integral in that success is pretty phenomenal.

If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.

On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?

If we can send a man to the moon, then why don't we send a woman?

I would much rather fly on Soyuz than the shuttle.