posted 08-24-2010 04:05 PM            

When Catherine Coleman, known as Cady, goes to work, waving goodbye to her son Jamey, 10, she doesn't drive or take a train – she blasts off in a spaceship. Many more women now work in space, but Cady's next NASA mission is a big one. In December, she leaves Earth on a Soyuz rocket for the International Space Station, where she will live and work for six months. This will be the longest mission undertaken by a NASA astronaut who is the mother of a young child...