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2) Sally Ride
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2021.
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"A biography of Sally Ride in the She Persisted series"--
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2023.
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"Born and raised in India, Kalpana Chawla was discouraged from pursuing a career in aeronautical engineering because there were limited career options for women in that field. But she persisted, getting her degree and then moving to the US to obtain other, more advanced education before joining NASA and becoming the first Indian-born woman to go to space. Though she was killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, she continues to inspire girls...
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"When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test pilots--a group then made up exclusively of men--had the right stuff. It was an era in which women were steered away from jobs in science and deemed unqualified for space flight. Eventually, though, NASA recognized its blunder and opened the application process to a wider array of hopefuls, regardless of race or gender....
7) Makers: Volume 2,Women who make America :Women in war, space, comedy, business, Hollywood, politics
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[2014]
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Profiles women leaders in the fields of politics, business, military, space, motion pictures, and comedy.
