1.   She also credits Rhea Seddon, Kathy Thornton and other women astronauts who interrupted their careers to have children with making it possible for her to do so.

2.   APTV will have pictures of the liftoff, and we preview the mission which will see an American woman astronaut go on board the Russian Mir Space station.

3.   Russian cosmonauts Gennady Manakov and Pavel Vinogradov and the French woman astronaut, Claudie Deshayes, said they had complete faith in the Russian spacecraft.

4.   He noted that other Canadian astronauts were also working on the ISS programme, including woman astronaut Julie Payette.