Contest: VOTE Miscellaneous Avatar Contest: Women and Space

[rhubarbodendron]

With so many interesting entries this is a difficult choice. To make it easier, everyone gets 5 votes and is allowed to change their vote if necessary. The poll will close automatically after 7 days.

Timewalker: Karoline Herschel, astronomer who discovered comets and nebulae and wrote an atlas of the latter

Timewalker: Julie Payette, astronaut

auntiehill: Sally Kristen Ride, astronaut, first American woman in space

auntiehill: Christina Hammock Koch, astronaut and engineer, one of the first two women to go on a space walk

Kai "the spy": Aglaonice, astronomer who could compute lunar eclipses over 2000 years ago

Kai "the spy": Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut, first woman in space

think: Blakesley Burkhart, astrophysicist, won an award for her works on magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

think: Sharon Christa McAuliffe, astronaut who perished in the Challenger explosion

Avro Arrow: Dr. Roberta Bondar, astronaut and researcher, and first Canadian woman in space

Avro Arrow: Dr. Mae Jemison, astronaut, physician and engineer, first African American woman in space.

Miss Lemon: Hypatia of Alexandria, mathematician and astronomer, charted celestial bodies and waws murdered by christian monks

Miss Lemon: Queen Seondeok of Silla, built the first observatory in Asia

rhubarbodendron: Liisi Oterma, astronomer, first women to get a PhD in astronomy in Finland

rhubarbodendron: Elisabeth von der Matt, astronomer, first female being treated equal by her male colleagues

SPECTRE: Samantha Cristoforetti, astronaut, holds the European record for the longest space flight and made the first espresso in space

 

[auntiehill]

voted

 

[Miss Lemon]

Voted for five women who reached for the stars.

 

[LAFR]

Voted, but I am biased...

 

[Captain pl1ngpl0ng]

voted on some really old space-broads.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Voted!

Great entries, all! It was very difficult to choose.

 

[think]

I am liking the changing vote option till it closes.. very cool.. we can alter the counts.. and all.. I may not do that but it is a great option. ---

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Voted!

 

[rhubarbodendron]

voted
@think : With so many choices and such difficult ones I thought it might be a good idea to offer the option of changing ones vote. Which of us hasn't accidentially clicked the wrong line before? But editing your vote will only be possible until the automatic poll closure, so don't hesitate too long if you think you made an error.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

and the winner of this round is @Kai "the spy" with Avro Arrow a close second and auntiehill, Miss Lemon and SPECTRE as equally close thirds, which shows how difficult a choice it was this time.
Congratulations to the winner and thanks to all participants for the awesome entries!

 

[Avro Arrow]

^ It doesn't appear that the tagging worked properly, so perhaps I will tag @Kai "the spy" here, just in case he hasn't seen the results yet.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Oh. How... nice. Thanks for the votes. I'll ponder on the theme and have a new contest up in the next... 24 hours?! Yes, that should do it.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Alright, new contest is open for entries.