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On June 18, 1983, NASA astronaut Sally Ride became America's first woman in space after she and four colleagues blasted off ...

On June 16, 1963, 26-year-old Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova made history by becoming the first woman to travel into space. A former factory seamstress, Tereshkova was an accomplished amateur ...

Rebecca Latimer Felton, a “grand old woman from Georgia,” was 87 years old when she took the oath of office on November 21, 1922, becoming the first female senator in American history. Suffragists in ...

NASA websites have dropped references to landing the first woman on the moon as part of the goals for its Artemis program. As of Friday, updated pages for the program no longer feature the statement: ...

A legacy institution now part of three Drexel University colleges and schools will be celebrated as part of the 250th anniversary of America’s founding: the first degree-granting medical school for ...

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It was May 4 1975. The Japanese Women’s Everest Expedition team had been living at a high altitude for six weeks, and were less than a week away from their scheduled bid for the summit of Mount ...

There is a real possibility that Vice President Kamala Harris could become the United States’ first woman president in 2025, now that President Joe Biden has officially taken himself out of the ...

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