NASA-International Space Station

With the NASA space shuttle Discovery docking at the International Space Station, it’s the first occasion in history four women have been in the same space craft at once.



The crew, which also includes men, is attaching the Leonardo Multi Purpose Logistics Module, or MPLM, to the station’s Harmony module so its 17,000 pounds of science resources and experiments can be transferred to the International Space Station, NASA says.

The work to shift the racks and supplies will occupy much of the combined shuttle and station crews’ time while the two spacecraft are docked.