John Glenn fans dreamed of the stars––but sexism thwarted their ambitions
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Recent scholarship on the early Space Age has reawakened questions about the ways gender, race, ethnicity and class shaped the U.S. human space flight program. Associate Professor Roshanna Sylvester shares on The Conversation.
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