Here’s a fun fact: virtually every female astronaut who has flown in space is a Girl Scout alum. That’s means more than one third of NASA’s space shuttle missions have had a Girl Scout flying on them! We count among our alums women like Dr. Kathryn Sullivan (the first American female to spacewalk), Susan Helms (the first woman to serve as a crew member on the International Space Station), and Mae Jemison (an engineer and the first African American woman to travel in space) along with many others. Pretty stellar list of women, right?
So how did Girl Scouts inspire so many women to boldly go where few have gone before? By encouraging them first to ...
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