Women of the World. Literally!

STS-131 Space Shuttle Discovery lit up the dawn sky this morning as she broke free from gravity's grip to reach low Earth orbit on her way to the International Space Station.

Onboard Discovery, three female astronauts: NASA's Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger and Stephanie Wilson andNaoko Yamazaki of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. They will join Space Station Expedition 23 crewmember Tracy Caldwell Dyson.

Four women in space at the same time! How cool is that?!?

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Naoko will tweet during the mission. You can follow @Astro_Naoko in English AND Japanese. Space Station is like our Space United Nations (S.U.N) with multiple nationalities and languages. ;)

Not only did we launch three female astronauts into space onboard a rocketship this morning to join the fourth on Space Station, but we also launched our NASA Deputy Lori Garver into the Twittersphere with her first tweet from launch at the Kennedy Space Center. You can follow her tweets @Lori_Garver.

In fact, one of Lori's first tweets inspired this blogpost.

Lori also launched her Facebook fan page this morning. NASA's social media presence ROCKets!

So, girls out there in the universe: Take hope. Aim high. Work hard. Never let a little "no" stop you. Your WORLD awaits you, as we have proof today.