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Sally Ride, the Physics that Broke Down the Wall that Held Women Back at NASA

Nearly 9,000 people responded to the announcement that the US space agency published in 1978 looking for candidates for its astronaut program, and among them there was a 26-year-old physicist, born in 1951 in a family of Norwegian descent and raised in Encino, a quiet neighborhood in Los Angeles, who knew perfectly well how difficult it was that he was trying because no woman in his country had ever stepped on space.
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Nearly 9,000 people responded to the announcement that the US space agency published in 1978 looking for candidates for its astronaut program, and among them there was a 26-year-old physicist, born in 1951 in a family of Norwegian descent and raised in Encino, a quiet neighborhood in Los Angeles, who knew perfectly well how difficult it was that he was trying because no woman in his country had ever stepped on space.

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Business Insider (Spain) broke the news on Saturday, August 15, 2026.
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