Twenty-five years after watching Alan Shepard’s suborbital flight from a middle-school cafeteria she was about to be part of history, her subject. She was about to join a line of pioneers tracing back to Shepard and the other original astronauts, the Mercury Seven, a line she hoped would continue to generations of “ordinary people” who would follow her into space. As she’d put it in one of her interviews, “The people who went to the moon, because they were able to see the whole world as this globe, came back with a much better perspective of why we all should work together. Because we are
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