Rocket women: How a secret program paved the way for female astronauts
Forever Ago
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The Story of the First American Woman to Go to Space
Sally Ride was a physicist who flew on the Challenger Space Shuttle in 1983. A Russian woman named Valentina Terishkava had already gone to space before her. But what you might not know is that before either of them, a group of bold, courageous women almost made it there.
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