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HISTORIC NASA MISSION – Daytona Times

Black woman to join International Space Station crew BY MURI ASSUNCAO NEW YORK DAILY NEWS/TNS Astronaut Jeanette Epps is getting ready to shatter a long-standing glass ceiling on her way to the International Space Station. NASA announced this week that Epps will go on her first six-month expedition to the orbiting space laboratory next year, […]

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1874

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