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A bit of history was made with the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery earlier today: when astronauts Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, Stephanie Wilson and Naoko Yamazaki (above), aboard Discovery, join astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson at the International Space Station, they together will have set the record for the most women in orbit simultaneously.  (Photo: Gary I. Rothstein / EPA via the Time of London)