January 21, 2005
'Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: America's First Women in Space Program'
When NASA began its manned space program, "manned" meant what it said. It wasn't until 1983 that Sally Ride became the first American woman in space. In fact, 20 years earlier, the agency had dismissed a new Soviet provocation in the space race: a female cosmonaut named Valentina Tereshkova, whose three-day orbit in June 1963 had eclipsed the total space time of all the previous manned U.S. missions together.
But while NASA waited decades to accept women, it was not for lack of
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