Anousheh Ansari
Learn how the first Iranian and Muslim woman to travel to outer space inspires and encourages girls to pursue science.
Biographies
Anousheh Ansari
Hector Garcia
Read about a national hero who fought for the rights of Latin Americans as a doctor and a major in the U.S. Army.
David Ho
Discover the challenges this HIV and AIDs researcher overcame in his life and his many achievements.
Katherine Johnson
Find out how this African American woman made human space travel possible with her precise calculation of the flight path.
Yuri Kochiyama
Find out how the unfair treatment from the government led a Japanese American to speak out for human rights.
Charley Parkhurst
Learn about this woman who lived life as a man became a famous stagecoach driver.
Mary Golda Ross
Discover this Native American woman’s achievements throughout her career as a mechanical and aeronautical engineer.
Dalip Singh Saund
Read about the challenges this man from India had to face to become the first Asian American voted into the U.S. Congress.
Jim Thorpe
Learn about the first Native American to win an Olympic gold medal and his many achievements as an all-around athlete.
Granville T. Woods
Find out what this African American inventor did that made him the “Black Thomas Edison.”