The WAVES, created by legislation signed by President Franklin D.
Roosevelt, became a World War II division of the U.S. Navy, and
consisted entirely of women. The name was the acronym for "Women
Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service”.

Mildred McAfee (below), President of Wellesley College, was sworn in
as a Naval Reserve Lieutenant Commander in early August of 1942. She
was the first female commissioned officer in U.S. Navy history, and the
first director of the WAVES.

       Jacqueline "Jackie" Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

                                   (July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994)                   

  

The Apollo 15 prime crew astronauts from left: Commander David R. Scott, Command Module Pilot Alfred M. Worden, and Lunar Module Pilot James 
B. Irwin

Apollo 15 was the ninth manned mission and was the first where the
Lunar Roving Vehicle was used. It concluded on August 7. At the time,
NASA called it the most successful manned flight ever achieved.

The Apollo 15 36-volt electric Lunar Roving Vehicle was one of three that went
to the Moon

President Nixon visits the Apollo 11 crew in quarantine after splash down

Astronaut Sally Ride

           Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012)

DEVELOPING:(FOX) – Sally Ride, America’s first female astronaut, has
died after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer. She joined NASA
in 1978, and in 1983 became the first woman, and then-youngest at 32,
to enter space. In 1987 she left NASA to work at Stanford University’s
Center for International Security and Arms Control.