Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space — The System Behind a Historic First
What does it really take to become “the first”—exceptional ability, or an institution finally creating a path for that ability to be seen?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space by Lynn Sherr as our lens, this episode examines the life of the physicist who became the first American woman in space and the larger institutional transformation surrounding her achievement.
Sherr's biography reveals a person much more complicated than the public symbol created by her 1983 flight. Ride was an athlete…
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