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Here’s to the women who helped pioneer US space travel.

In this episode of Bloomberg’s The Big Take podcast, former Verge space reporter Loren Grush recounts the careers of some of the first women to graduate from NASA’s astronaut training program, including Sally Ride, Kathy Sullivan, Shannon Lucid, and Rhea Seddon.

You can find out more via Grush’s new book: The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts.

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