Sally Ride

Sally Ride

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  NASA picks 8 new astronauts, 4 of them women

  NASA has eight new astronauts — its first new batch in four years. Among the lucky candidates: the first female fighter pilot to become an astronaut ... 

• Sally Ride to get posthumous Medal of Freedom

  President Barack Obama will bestow the Medal of Freedom posthumously on Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space. Obama says Ride was a ... 

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  NASA moon craft spots Ebb and Flow crash sites

  When NASA's twin spacecraft Ebb and Flow crashed into the moon last year, scientists did not count on seeing the aftermath. On Tuesday, the space ... 

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  Gay community hails Foster's halting Globes speech

  Was it a proud revelation, or an impassioned case for privacy? A coming-out speech, or a why-SHOULD-I-come-out speech? Too little and too late, or ... 

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  Final goodbye: Roll call of some who died in 2012

  Neil Armstrong would always be taking that first step onto the moon, and Dick Clark was forever "the world's oldest teenager." Some of the notables ...