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Women push for spaceflight role as Russians orbited
U S lawmakers debate women aboard space missions as Russia reportedly put two cosmonauts in orbit. Jerri Cobb and others urge NASA to recruit women. several senators call the achievement significant while Defense officials caution no current plan exists. Some see propaganda, others praise equal opportunity.
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Washington
Congress
Defense Department
Russia
United
Ori
Earth
America
Jerri Cobb
Oklahoma City
U.S
Philip Hart
Michigan
National Aeronautics and Space Agency
NASA
Leningrad “Symphony
Ailout
Thomas Pelly
R-Wash
House Space Committee
EL Am
Stephen M. Young
Ohio
Senate Space Committee
C. B. Lloyd Jr
United States
Maurine Neuberger
Dore
Miss Cobb
Women's Advertising Club