Kathy Sullivan wanted to go everywhere. She loved blueprints and maps. She loved languages and the ocean. She didn t like the question, What do you want to be when you grow up? She wanted to explore and do exciting things that girls weren t supposed to be able to do. Only men had the exciting jobs.
Kathy liked fishing and swimming; flying planes and studying science. That s what she liked and that s what she decided to do with her life. She followed her heart and eventually became a NASA astronaut and the first woman to walk in space. Kathy wanted to see the whole world and so she did: from space
Backmatter includes further information about Dr. Sullivan and her career, as well as other famous firsts made by women astronauts."