Girls Rock

Because the past mission featured both a female shuttle commander and a female space station commander (Pam Melroy and Peggy Whitson, respectively), someone decided to take a photo of all the female flight controllers that worked in Mission Control during the flight. The email went out, and got forwarded, and forwarded, and forwarded -- because when you start counting up all phases of flight and front room people and back room people and engineering support people, you realize that there are really quite a lot of people that work the missions.

The photo was scheduled for 4:30 this afternoon, so I wandered downstairs to the flight control room about 5 minutes before then. I walked through the door to see dozens of women waiting for the photo. More continued to stream in. By the time we squeezed together for the photo, there were probably 50-60 people in the room.

Girls rock.