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This Happened — June 18: Sally Ride Goes To Space

Updated June 18, 2024 at 1:00 p.m. Sally Ride became the first American woman to go into space on this day in 1983. She was a mission specialist on the space shuttle Challenger, during the STS-7 mission where she spent a total of six days, two hours and 23 minutes in space. What was the […]

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She Was The Anti-Oppenheimer, Down To The Very Last Atom

The movie ‘Oppenheimer’ makes no mention of Lise Meitner, the co-discoverer of nuclear fission. But she would have wanted it that way.

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