When you hear about the history of space science and space exploration,it often seems like a laundry list of men and their achievements. The fact is, though, or women bear been doing science and making breakthroughs as long as there has been such a thing as science. History is often written by the winners,which in the case of a patriarchal society is pretty much automatically men, but recently increasingly books bear been emerging chronicling how women contributed to the space race and our understanding of the stars.
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