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These days, just about every space mission has women on it. It’s just not a big deal. But in 1983, it was very much a big deal - that’s the year Sally Ride became the first American woman in space. 

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Sally Ride went to what she called a "classic school for girls" with "a good tennis team, a good English teacher and essentially no math past eleventh grade, and no physics, and no chemistry." The attitude of her school was similar to what other institution mentioned in this video?

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