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6 episodes in this season

Women in Comedy

60 min

Women in Hollywood

60 min

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Women in Space

60 min

Women in War

60 min

Women in Business

60 min

Women in Politics

60 min

Makers: Women Who Make America

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20131h4.5

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Women in Space

Season 2 · Episode 3 · Oct 14, 2014

Traces the history of women pioneers in the U.S. space program. Some, like aviators Wally Funk and Jerrie Cobb, passed the same grueling tests as male astronauts, only to be dismissed by NASA, the military, and even Lyndon Johnson, as a distraction. It wasn’t until 1995 that Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot a spacecraft. The program includes interviews with Collins, as well as Sally Ride’s classmates Shannon Lucid, Rhea Seddon and Kathryn Sullivan, and features Mae Jemison, the first woman of color astronaut, and Peggy Whitson, the first female commander of the International Space Station. The hour ends with the next generation of women engineers, mathematicians and astronauts—the new group of pioneers, like Marleen Martinez, who continue to make small but significant steps forward.

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Makers: Women Who Make America

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20131h4.5

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Women in Space

Season 2 · Episode 3 · Oct 14, 2014

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