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The Privilege to Launch

Moonstruck by DraftHouse Media

May 23, 201826:56Science & Medicine

After the Soviet Union launched the first woman to space in 1963, the United States waited over twenty years to do the same. NASA didn't consider women for the earliest space missions, despite their proven ability to liv...

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