From Maria Popova comes an excerpt from a conversation — with a bonus animation — between feminist icon Gloria Steinem and astronaut Sally Ride, who says the worst part of her training involved journalists: "Everybody wanted to know what kind of makeup I was taking up — they didn’t care about how well-prepared I was to operate the arm or deploy communication satellites … The worst question that I’ve gotten was whether I cried when we got malfunctions in the simulator."
February 15, 2016
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