Woman astronaut

A woman in a space suit, standing for women astronauts and women in space science.

It appears in posts that celebrate women on space missions and in STEM, and in kids' content about space. Anyone can use it for a far-off dream, a floaty mood, or a night of stargazing with 🔭 and ✨.

Facts

Woman astronaut 👩‍🚀 is an emoji in the people and body category, under person role. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 4.0, released in 2016. It is a sequence that joins 👩 woman and 🚀 rocket. Devices that do not know the sequence show those emoji side by side. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :woman_astronaut:. People also look for it with words like “astronaut”, “rocket”, “space”, or “woman”.

Made of

👩+🚀=👩‍🚀

Timeline

1. 2016Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 4.0)
2. 2016Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 4.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

people & body · Emoji 4.0