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How Far American Women Astronauts Have Soared Since Sally Ride Took Her Historic Spaceflight
For 30 years, Valerie Neal curated the human spaceflight artifact collections at the National Air and Space Museum. But after ...
Among the trailblazing women, those who had long aspired to spaceflight learned to fly airplanes in hopes of improving their ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This First Shuttle Flight Achievement ...
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This Historian Interviewed Nearly Every Woman Astronaut and Learned How They Redefined NASA Forever
Historian Valerie Neal reveals how women astronauts transformed NASA and redefined what it means to explore space.
LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- A stretch of the 101 Freeway in the San Fernando Valley will be renamed in honor of Encino native Sally Ride, the first American woman in space. A resolution passed by the state ...
Thirty years ago it seemed Sally Ride could overcome any obstacle. As the first U.S. woman to ride into space, she defied the barriers of gender and gravity. But she couldn’t overcome a banal one that ...
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Why America wasn’t first when it came to women in space
Most people think Sally Ride was the first woman in space - but that honor belongs to Valentina Tereshkova, a Soviet cosmonaut who launched into orbit in 1963. This video uncovers her remarkable ...
SOUTH LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- In November, the S.S. Sally Ride Cygnus cargo spacecraft launched from NASA's Virginia site en route to the International Space Station. The spacecraft was named after the ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This 1:100-scale model of the Space ...
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