Like any Other Astronaut
Though the Mercury 13 was never allowed in space, it did not stop the women from encourage more women to be involved with space.
- Jacqueline Cochran became a NASA consultant in 1961
- Nichelle Nichols recruited astronaut candidates for NASA from the late 1970s to the late 1980s.
- Nancy Roman was chief of NASA's Astronomy and Relativity Programs, desgined telescopes to orbit Earth, and known as Mother of the Hubble Telescope.
- Astronaut Eileen M. Collins, STS-114 commander was first to be a femal commander.