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More than Sally Ride: Loren Grush explains how NASA’s first women astronauts changed space

Loren Grush half-smiles at camera
Photo illustration by Alex Parkin / The Verge

In the 1980s, NASA wanted space to become a booming business — and the first six women astronauts were meant to help get it off the ground.

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