Astro Barbie: Pair of Dolls That Went to Space Now on Display at the Smithsonian
the latest addition to its collection of Astronaut Barbie, which now includes the only two dolls to have actually gone to space.This particular pair of space-themed Barbie dolls didn’t just don their astronaut suits for fun, they put them to use as part of Mission DreamStar, a collaboration between the toy company Mattel and NASA that set out to encourage young girls to become astronauts and space scientists.
also includes three other iterations of Astronaut Barbie: 1965 Miss Astronaut, 1985 Astronaut Barbie, and 1994 Moon landing Barbie.Miss Astronaut was a pioneer, the first Barbie doll wearing a spacesuit was released 13 years before NASA started including women in its class of astronauts in 1978 and 18 years before Sally Ride became the first American woman to go to space in 1983.
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