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'Hidden Figures' hero Dorothy Vaughan, female astronauts honored by NASA
Many years before Susan Kilrain became a U.S. Navy TA-4J Skyhawk flight instructor and the second female NASA astronaut to pilot a space shuttle, her dad supported her youthful dreams during an era when groundbreaking women had to forge new paths in the …