Today in eagle club we got a Time For Kids. The teacher said to read the story and then write about what we read and tell about it too. The story is called She's the Station Commander . This story is about how a rocket blasted from a launch pad in Kazakhstan in central Asia. The rocket carried some people like Americans, Russians, and Malaysians were going to the International Space Station (ISS). The women Peggy Whitson was the first women to the command. This is her second trip to the ISS. In the 2002 she spent six mounths in the station and for hours and hours went space walking. Her journey in space was a project between the space agencies of several countries. The station since 1998 had a circle to the earth more then 50,000 times.The misson includes another milestone.The first Malaysian to go in space was Dr.Sheikh Muszaphar shukor. At last they all celebrated about what the women have done.
Women have definately came a long way! Would you like to be an astronaut one day? I know all of the astronauts had to work really hard to get to be able to go into space! What are some other achievements of women that we should celebrate?
Posted by: Mrs. Meeler | November 09, 2007 at 08:55 AM