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Sally Ride tells girls about career as astronaut at MIT event
Photo by L. Barry Hetherington.
America's first woman astronaut, Dr. Sally Ride, encouraged fifth- to eighth-grade girls and their parents to "Reach for the Stars" at the Sally Ride Science Club's Boston Science Festival held at MIT on Sunday, Sept. 22 [2002]. Speaking before a full house of young girls and their parents in Kresge Auditorium, Sally Ride described her early . . . [read more]
