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2024-10-31 12:49:15 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: E3BA6199AFAFA85FCE6174BBA9FDE8B5C17A0FAA29475EDC8D61E27C98E56FA4
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Since women had been banned from serving as pilots in the US military since 1944, they were excluded from the pool of candidates for NASA. First US women astronaut candidates were selected in January 1978. https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-first-class-of-female-astronauts/ https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/education/teachers/curricular-resources/breaking-gender-barriers-a-female-space-trainee-advocates-for-women-in-space
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