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A comment on Joe Walker: NASA's Forgotten Spaceman.

Re:Joe Walker: NASA's Forgotten Spaceman by vaadu on Monday May 22, 2017 @03:12PM (#14396128)
The first civilian in space was Valentina Tereshkova https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronaut
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Re:Joe Walker: NASA's Forgotten Spaceman by high_frontier on Monday May 22, 2017 @04:10PM (#14396543)
She was given an Air Force Commission when selected as were the other female cosmonaut candidates, so at the time of her flight held a military rank and was generally pictured in her uniform
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