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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

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Re: Russia Celebrates Tereshkova - First Woman in Space  :)

Congratulations to Ms. Tereshkova

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

Shaun Barrett

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From: Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Registered: 2001-12-28

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Re: Russia Celebrates Tereshkova - First Woman in Space  :)

And to the intrepid band of 13 women who passed all the astronaut testing procedures back in the 60s - but were never allowed to become astronauts because they lacked the balls for it!!
    SHAME, SHAME !!   

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Free Spirit

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Registered: 2003-06-12

Posts: 167

Re: Russia Celebrates Tereshkova - First Woman in Space  :)

One of those 13 women, Wally Funk, might be not only the first woman, but the first person, to orbit in a totally private spacecraft.  She's working with Interorbital right now on accomplishing that.  You can find info on it that these pages: 
http://www.xprize.org/teams/ios.html
http://www.interorbital.com/Opening.htm

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My people don't call themselves Sioux or Dakota.  We call ourselves Ikce Wicasa, the natural humans, the free, wild, common people.  I am pleased to call myself that.  -Lame Deer

Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

Posts: 9,734

Re: Russia Celebrates Tereshkova - First Woman in Space  :)

Sally Ride Inducted Into "Space Hall of Fame"

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

Josh Cryer

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Registered: 2001-09-29

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Re: Russia Celebrates Tereshkova - First Woman in Space  :)

Free Spirit, that's awesome. I know of the 13 astronauts Shaun was speaking of, and it'd be great to see one of them vindicated.

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