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Women such as Harriet Quimby, the first licensed women pilot, and Amelia Earheart, the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, were unknowingly paving the way for other women, like Sally Ride, in the field of women in science and aeronaut ....

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... University. There she worked hard to obtain four degrees. In 1973, she received her Bachelor of Arts in English and her Bachelor of Science in Physics. In 1975 she received her Masters in Physics and a Ph.D. in 1978. In 1977 she responded to an ad in the Stanford University newspaper for NASA astronauts. She was originally looking for postdoctoral work in astrophysics. Previously, astronauts had always been military pilots, but now NASA wanted to hire scientists and technicians who could monitor the complex technology of the shuttle. Prior to her application, no women had ever been accepted into NASA's space program. There were ove ...