Millie Hughes-Fulford was the first woman to go into space as a payload specialist, the scientists who work aboard NASA’s space missions.Hughes-Fulford was initially selected as a payload specialist in 1986, but her first spaceflight was delayed by the 1986 Challenger explosion, which put a halt to the U.S.
space program for several years. It was 1991 before Hughes-Fulford went to space aboard the space shuttle for Spacelab Life Sciences 1 (SLS-1), the first U.S.
space mission to include three women on its crew. It was a mission dedicated to biomedical research, and among Hughes- Fulford’s duties was drawing blood from her crewmates.
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