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6:41 pm
Wed March 6, 2013

Capital Report: 03-06-2013

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A day after the Florida Senate passed its ethics reform plan, members of House are hammering out their version. But Regan McCarthy reports some say the new plans are really a mixed bag of good and bad.

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Science
11:47 am
Wed March 6, 2013

The TED Radio Hour is Peering into Space this Saturday, April 6th at 12PM

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Gazing up at the night sky is simultaneously humbling and utterly thrilling. This hour, we'll hear from TED speakers who share an infectious sense of wonder and curiosity about our place in the universe and what lies beyond our skies.

Listen to the TED Radio Hour on 88.9 WFSU-FM at noon this Saturday, April 6th.

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The Two-Way
5:25 pm
Mon July 23, 2012

Sally Ride, First American Woman In Space, Is Dead

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Ride and her crewmates rocketed into space aboard Challenger at 7:33 a.m. Eastern Time on June 18, 1983. Ride later described the launch as "exhilarating, terrifying and overwhelming all at the same time."
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Some of NASA's first female astronaut candidates take a break from training in Florida in 1978. From left: Sally Ride, Judith Resnik, Anna Fisher, Kathryn Sullivan and Rhea Seddon
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Ride floats near Challenger's hatch.
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Ride inside the control room during a simulation of a shuttle flight in 1981.
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Astronaut Sally K. Ride, STS-7 mission specialist, communicates with ground controllers from the mid-deck of the earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Challenger in June 1983.
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Originally published on Mon July 23, 2012 7:42 pm

In 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman in space. She blasted off aboard Challenger, culminating a long journey that started in 1977 when the Ph.D. candidate answered an ad seeking astronauts for NASA missions.

In a lecture she gave at Berkeley, Ride said she saw the ad on Page 3 of the student newspaper.

"The moment I saw that ad, I knew that's what I wanted to do," she said.

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