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    USA TODAY‏Verified account @USATODAY 18 Jun 2016

    On June 18, 1983, Sally Ride became the first woman in space.https://amp.twimg.com/v/c19895fb-5e8d-407a-b1e4-bc8deda3a542 …

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      1. Joe Navarro‏Verified account @navarrotells 18 Jun 2016
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        The first US woman in space

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      2. NYC EMS Watch‏ @NYCEMSwatch 18 Jun 2016
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        ...she was not the first woman in space she was the first American in space.

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      3. NYC EMS Watch‏ @NYCEMSwatch 18 Jun 2016
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        this is the first woman in space.http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-woman-in-space …

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      1. Kenneth Kandolf Haug‏ @KennethKHaug 18 Jun 2016
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        No, she became the first American woman in space. Please stop perpetuating this lie.

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      1. maglev‏ @maglev19 18 Jun 2016
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        Incorrect: Valentina Tereshkova, 1963.

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      1. Stan moraghan‏ @Lfc26939 18 Jun 2016
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        Let's hear it for Valentina Tererskova, 1st woman in space.👏

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      1. Jeanne Bianco‏ @JeanneB1962 18 Jun 2016
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        that's wrong. the Russians put the first woman in space

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      1. AT‏ @at2__1 18 Jun 2016
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        American woman. Valentina Tereshkova was there many years earlier.

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      1. Arthur Sievers‏ @sagestats 18 Jun 2016
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        Shouldn't that American? @USATODAY

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      1. Aη∂ι‏ @AlmightyBored 18 Jun 2016
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        .@USATODAY First woman in space was Valentina Tereshkova June 16, 1963. Sally Ride was first *American* woman in space.

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      2. Peggy Polenberg‏ @PPolenberg 18 Jun 2016
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        1st Gay Woman in Space. Seems you decided to leave that pertinent fact out. @Mattersofpride

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      3. Pride matters‏ @Mattersofpride 18 Jun 2016
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        . @PPolenberg @USATODAY The press often straight wash these facts, in 83 it wouldn't be reported but we live in different times! #lgbt

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      1. Keith Simmons‏ @keithS120200040 18 Jun 2016
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        RIDE SALLY RIDE!

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