Hillary Clinton: NASA said I couldn’t go to space

By Charlie Spiering

Published March 21, 2012 4:00am ET

Hillary Clinton: NASA said I couldn’t go to space — In a speech yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton revealed she wanted to be an astronaut as a girl, but NASA told her she couldn’t because she was a woman. “When I was about 13, I wrote to NASA and asked what I needed to do to try to be an astronaut,” she explained. “And […]

In a speech yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton revealed she wanted to be an astronaut as a girl, but NASA told her she couldn’t because she was a woman.

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