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rglovejoy on July 23, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Sally Ride, first American woman in space, has die...

Try: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/07/23/157250870/sal...

skystorm on July 24, 2012 | [–]

> [...] a long journey that started in 1977 when the Ph.D. candidate answered an ad seeking astronauts for NASA missions.

Somehow that just blows my mind, become an astronaut simply by responding to an ad in a student newspaper. Oh, the early days of space travel... :)

temuze on July 23, 2012 | [–]

And on hn: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4283217

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