A rather niche record was set yesterday when the shuttle launched: The most women in orbit at the same time. Three of the seven astronauts on Discovery are women, and there’s a woman on the International Space Station. The four are scheduled to rendezvous on Wednesday and will form “the largest gathering of women in space in history.”

Very cool, but I’m looking forward to the day when we don’t feel the need to keep track of that kind of thing any more.