Here’s the exciting reason why this woman is on track to make NASA astronaut history

Jeanette J. Epps is going to be the first black woman on the International Space Station. She was one of nine astronauts selected from a pool of about 3,500.

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Her expedition is expected to take flight in May 2018.

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