Source: Ms.Magazine
The magazine pictured to the left states,"The arrival of women astronaut candidates, at the Johnson Space Center in Houston liberated the most exclusive men's club in America; no area of national life had been so totally male as the space program." Ride proved through her mission that women were just as capable as men in space.
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Source: Lori Garver, Planetfest 2012 - August 4, 2012
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Sally Ride is a role model to women all over the world. A 1984 poll of 435 college-educated women Ride was voted second best role model for young women.
 Source: NASA History Center Archives |
 Source: NASA History Center Archives |