Trump's moon shot might be steered by a woman, says Nasa chief

A third of America's astronauts are women, says Dr Ellen Ochoa, a director at an agency that has come a long way on equality

There is at least a one in three chance that the first human to set foot on the moon this century will be a woman, Dr Ellen Ochoa, the head of Nasa's Johnson space center has said.

In the early 1960s Nasa sent out rejection letters saying it had no plans to send women into space. Among those who apparently received the brush-off was a teenage Hillary Clinton. But the agency has since changed its tune, and in 1983 Sally Ride became the first American woman in space. In 2013 Nasa announced that half of its new class of eight astronauts were women - a first for the agency.