Curated photographs and images highlight American female astronauts across science, movies, TV and design

QUEENS, NY – The New York Hall of Science, the city’s only hands-on science center, today welcomed its new exhibit “Imaging Women in the Space Age,” a showcase of America’s female astronauts across science, movies, television and design. Through a series of narrative photographs and images, the exhibition highlights the achievements of America’s female astronauts.

The exhibit, which spans from the earliest moon goddesses to today’s galactic fashions, is created by exhibit curator Dr. Julie Wosk, professor emerita at State University of New York, Maritime College, and author of Women and the Machine, My Fair Ladies, and Artificial Women.

Visitors will learn about pioneering women and ground-breaking achievements including:

· Sally Ride, America’s first woman in space, Mae Jemison, America’s first African-American female astronaut, and Ellen Ochoa, America’s first Hispanic woman to go into space.

· Queens’ own astronaut, Dr. Ellen Baker, daughter of former Queens Borough President Claire Shulman.

· The exhibit also celebrates today’s NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch who were the first to participate in an all-woman spacewalk.

The exhibit will also include vintage and current images of female space travelers in television shows like Lost in Space and Star Trek, space-inspired fashions including Pucci’s designs for Braniff Airlines flight attendants, Chanel’s futuristic dresses, and screen shots from films like Barbarella starring Jane Fonda and Gravity starring Sandra Bullock.

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