{"id":96652,"date":"2020-10-24T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/heres-why-scientists-think-women-are-better-suited-to-space-travel\/"},"modified":"2020-10-24T12:00:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T09:00:15","slug":"heres-why-scientists-think-women-are-better-suited-to-space-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/heres-why-scientists-think-women-are-better-suited-to-space-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"#Here\u2019s why scientists think women are better suited to space travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a41332e61211\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a41332e61211\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/heres-why-scientists-think-women-are-better-suited-to-space-travel\/#The_first_woman_in_space\" >The first woman in space\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/heres-why-scientists-think-women-are-better-suited-to-space-travel\/#Advantages_of_flying_women_astronauts\" >Advantages of flying women astronauts<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Here\u2019s why scientists think women are better suited to space <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a><\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"d921\" class=\"hv hw fh hx b hy hz ia ib ic id ie if ig ih ii ij ik il im in io ip iq ir is ez cg ju\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">Are women better astronauts than men? This question will become central to the selection of crews to the Moon, Mars, and beyond as we undertake the colonization of space.<\/p>\n<p id=\"8734\" class=\"hv hw fh hx b hy hz ia ib ic id ie if ig ih ii ij ik il im in io ip iq ir is ez cg\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">In the struggle for gender equality, women have already proven they are capable of doing anything \u2014 including conquering space, showing that not even the sky is the limit for their success.<\/p>\n<p data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">[Read: <em>Meet Alyssa Carson, the 18-year-old training to become the first human on Mars<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p id=\"0bf7\" class=\"hv hw fh hx b hy hz ia ib ic id ie if ig ih ii ij ik il im in io ip iq ir is ez cg\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">\u201cThe first all-women spacewalk at the International Space Station was carried out in October of 2019 and many other milestones have already been accomplished by women astronauts. But there has yet to be a first woman on the moon (or on Mars),\u201d Katharina Buchholz writes for Statista.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"f119\" class=\"hv hw fh hx b hy hz ia ib ic id ie if ig ih ii ij ik il im in io ip iq ir is ez cg\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_first_woman_in_space\"><\/span><strong class=\"hx it\">The first woman in space\u00a0<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"iw ix iy iz ja jb kf kg hf kh jv ki kj kk bf kl km kn ko kp bt paragraph-image\">\n<div class=\"jc jd ci je aj\">\n<div class=\"es et ke\">\n<div class=\"jj s ci jk\">\n<div class=\"kq jm s\">\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"sf sg t u v jg aj c lazy\" alt=\"Image for post\" width=\"601\" height=\"853\" src=\"https:\/\/miro.medium.com\/max\/601\/1*FjUMT9D8uBuuKrN4Lv5lXg.jpeg\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><figcaption><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/syndication\/2020\/10\/24\/heres-why-scientists-think-women-are-better-suited-to-space-travel\/#\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthenextweb.com%2Fsyndication%2F2020%2F10%2F24%2Fheres-why-scientists-think-women-are-better-suited-to-space-travel%2F&amp;via=thenextweb&amp;related=thenextweb&amp;text=Check out this picture on: Valentina Tereshkova seen in 1963 became the first woman in space. Image credit: RIA Novosti\" data-title=\"Share Valentina Tereshkova seen in 1963 became the first woman in space. Image credit: RIA Novosti on Twitter\" data-width=\"685\" data-height=\"500\" class=\"post-image-share popitup\" title=\"Share Valentina Tereshkova seen in 1963 became the first woman in space. Image credit: RIA Novosti on Twitter\"><i class=\"icon icon--inline icon--twitter--dark\"\/><\/a>Valentina Tereshkova seen in 1963 became the first woman in space. Image credit: RIA Novosti<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p id=\"c390\" class=\"hv hw fh hx b hy hz ia ib ic id ie if ig ih ii ij ik il im in io ip iq ir is ez cg\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova was born in Russia, in 1937. At the age of 18, working at a textile factory, she designed parachutes to aid her love of skydiving.<\/p>\n<p id=\"4bd0\" class=\"hv hw fh hx b hy hz ia ib ic id ie if ig ih ii ij ik il im in io ip iq ir is ez cg\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">In the early 1960\u2019s, the Soviet and American space programs were each engaged in reaching milestones in space exploration, attempting to upstage their adversary. Striving to beat the United States in sending the first woman in space, Soviet officials selected Tereshkova to become the first woman in space.<\/p>\n<p id=\"2176\" class=\"hv hw fh hx b hy hz ia ib ic id ie if ig ih ii ij ik il im in io ip iq ir is ez cg\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">Tereshkova was launched into space on June 16, 1963, aboard the spacecraft Vostok 6. After 3 days, Vostok 6 reentered the atmosphere, culminating in Tereshkova successfully parachuting to Earth after ejecting at 20,000 feet. (This was standard for cosmonauts at the time).<\/p>\n<p id=\"29fa\" class=\"hv hw fh hx b hy hz ia ib ic id ie if ig ih ii ij ik il im in io ip iq ir is ez cg\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">\u201cAfter her historic space flight, Valentina Tereshkova received the Order of Lenin and Hero of the Soviet Union awards\u2026 In 1966, Tereshkova became a member of the Supreme Soviet, the USSR\u2019s national parliament, and she served as the Soviet representative to numerous international women\u2019s organizations and events. She never entered space again, and hers was the last space flight by a woman cosmonaut until the 1980s,\u201d<span>\u00a0<\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"cm kr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/first-woman-in-space\">The History Channel reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"iw ix iy iz ja jb\"><figcaption class=\"jq jr eu es et js jt au b av aw ax\"\/><\/figure>\n<p id=\"5f2a\" class=\"hv hw fh hx b hy hz ia ib ic id ie if ig ih ii ij ik il im in io ip iq ir is ez cg\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">Although women\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"cm kr\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/the-cosmic-companion\/celebrating-jerrie-cobb-pioneer-for-women-in-space-3ee79eb74520\">successfully trained as American astronauts<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>in the 1960\u2019s, It took 15 years for the U.S. to fully accept women in their astronaut corps. In 1978, NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roved six women to become the first woman astronauts of the U.S. space program.<\/p>\n<p id=\"feec\" class=\"hv hw fh hx b hy hz ia ib ic id ie if ig ih ii ij ik il im in io ip iq ir is ez cg\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">One of them was Sally Ride, a doctor in physics who became part of the STS-7 crew on April 30, 1982, serving as a mission specialist. She was also the first American woman astronaut to return to space a second time, in 1984.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ec03\" class=\"hv hw fh hx b hy hz ia ib ic id ie if ig ih ii ij ik il im in io ip iq ir is ez cg\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">\u201cRide again made history when she became the first American woman to fly to space a second time on October 5, 1984, on shuttle mission STS-41G, where she was part of a seven-member crew that spent eight days in space. Another woman, mission specialist Kathryn D. Sullivan, was also part of that crew, making it the first NASA space flight with two women aboard (Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space during that mission),<br \/><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"cm kr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/first-american-woman-in-space\">The History Channel reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"e99e\" class=\"hv hw fh hx b hy hz ia ib ic id ie if ig ih ii ij ik il im in io ip iq ir is ez cg\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">After that, more than 59 women including cosmonauts, astronauts, payload specialists, and foreign nationals have flown in space, and several other women<span>\u00a0<\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"cm kr\" href=\"https:\/\/thecosmiccompanion.net\/how-do-astronauts-sleep-in-space\/\">astronauts<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>are now preparing to take their first flight beyond Earth.<\/p>\n<p id=\"f651\" class=\"hv hw fh hx b hy hz ia ib ic id ie if ig ih ii ij ik il im in io ip iq ir is ez cg\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">Despite enormous progress, since Sally Ride took her first flight, over 80% of the astronauts are still men. The 2013 class of incoming astronauts were the first to reach a 50\/50 division of women to men.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"iw ix iy iz ja jb\">\n<\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"kt ku kv\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 id=\"f469\" class=\"kw kx fh au ky kz la lb lc ld le lf lg lh li lj lk ll lm ln lo lp lq lr ls lt cg\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Advantages_of_flying_women_astronauts\"><\/span>Advantages of flying women astronauts<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p id=\"9e9f\" class=\"hv hw fh hx b hy lu ia ib ic lv ie if ig lw ii ij ik lx im in io ly iq ir is ez cg\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">There are some reasons suggesting that women<span>\u00a0<\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"cm kr\" href=\"https:\/\/thecosmiccompanion.net\/how-do-astronauts-sleep-in-space\/\">astronauts<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>may perform better than men in some respects, including:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li id=\"bc43\" class=\"hv hw fh hx b hy hz ia ib ic id ie if ig ih ii ij ik il im in io ip iq ir is lz ma mb cg\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">\n<strong class=\"hx it\">Women are lighter<\/strong>: Sending too much weight to space requires fuel, costing a lot of money. Having more women on the crew could help reduce the cost of space travel.<\/li>\n<li id=\"08b3\" class=\"hv hw fh hx b hy mc ia ib ic md ie if ig me ii ij ik mf im in io mg iq ir is lz ma mb cg\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">\n<strong class=\"hx it\">Women eat fewer calories and use fewer resources<\/strong>: When you plan to send humans to<span>\u00a0<\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"cm kr\" href=\"https:\/\/thecosmiccompanion.net\/finding-mars-shining-bright-in-the-western-sky\/\">Mars<\/a>, it may be a good idea to have more women on the crew because they require 15 to 25% fewer energy calories than men. They also expend less energy despite possessing similar activity levels. Additionally, because women are (on average) smaller than men, they produce less waste (CO2 and body excretions), making it easier for the spacecraft systems to recycle it.<\/li>\n<li id=\"55f1\" class=\"hv hw fh hx b hy mc ia ib ic md ie if ig me ii ij ik mf im in io mg iq ir is lz ma mb cg\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">\n<strong class=\"hx it\">Space traveling affects men and women differently<\/strong>: Due to the effects of microgravity and radiation, space-traveling can have several implications on<span>\u00a0<\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"cm kr\" href=\"https:\/\/thecosmiccompanion.net\/how-microgravity-changes-the-human-body\/\">astronaut\u2019s health<\/a>. It seems that men are less affected by space motion sickness than women, but men are quicker to experience diminished hearing. Men also have a higher risk of vision problems, while women tend to have more urinary tract infections.<\/li>\n<li id=\"4c2d\" class=\"hv hw fh hx b hy mc ia ib ic md ie if ig me ii ij ik mf im in io mg iq ir is lz ma mb cg\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">\n<strong class=\"hx it\">Women can give birth<\/strong>: One idea for the<span>\u00a0<\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"cm kr\" href=\"https:\/\/thecosmiccompanion.net\/the-future-of-human-evolution-in-space\/\">long-term colonization of space<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>is to send an all-women crew to Mars or other colonies. This would reduce travel costs, as an all-women crew to reproduce over time through artificial means.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"42f6\" class=\"hv hw fh hx b hy hz ia ib ic id ie if ig ih ii ij ik il im in io ip iq ir is ez cg\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">\u201cMore significantly, men tend to have problems with deteriorating vision, which women don\u2019t experience as often or as severely. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly \u2014 who has spent a cumulative 520 days in space and has the eye problems to prove it \u2014 half-jokingly wrote in his autobiography that if scientists can\u2019t figure out what\u2019s causing those eye issues, \u2018we just might have to send an all-women crew to Mars,\u2019\u201d<span>\u00a0<\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"cm kr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/magazine\/2019\/07\/space-travel-four-ways-women-are-a-better-fit-than-men\/\">Nadia Drake<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>writes for National Geographic.<\/p>\n<p id=\"2c30\" class=\"hv hw fh hx b hy hz ia ib ic id ie if ig ih ii ij ik il im in io ip iq ir is ez cg\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">Women have already proven to be great astronauts. However, there have not yet been enough studies to conclude whether or not<span>\u00a0<\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"cm kr\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/the-cosmic-companion\/the-first-woman-on-the-moon-6f16eb535ec5\">women<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>should make up most \u2014 or all \u2014 of the first colonists to space.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This article was originally published on <\/span><\/i><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/the-cosmic-companion\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Cosmic Companion<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Dr. Ana Luiza Dias and James\u00a0 Maynard. 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