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Sally ride, the first american woman in space, talks with ground control during a sixday mission aboard the space shuttle challenger in 1983. Sally ride, americas first woman in space, looks out the forward windows of the space shuttle challenger in june 1983. Nasa if the womens movement hadnt come along and did what it did, by the time that sally got to stanford university and opened the newspaper that morning in january 1977, the article stating nasa was recruiting women. Scientific american is the essential guide to the most aweinspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our. So i continue to highlight the stories of the women who came before us whether centuries or decades or just days earlier.
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