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Space Age: Women destined for shuttle flight in 1980s
Eugene Cernan, Apollo 17 astronaut, predicts NASA will form a new astronaut corps including women to fly on the space shuttle in the early 1980s. He foresees shuttle missions advancing science, lunar materials use, and early space communities beyond Earth.
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