Hillary inducted into Women's Hall of Fame
Inspired by Alan Shepard, the first American to journey into space, a 14-year-old from suburban Chicago wrote a letter to Nasa in 1961 asking what she needed to do to become an astronaut. She got a curt reply: Girls are not being recruited by the nation's space programme.
"It had never crossed my mind up until that point that there might be doors closed to me simply because I was a girl," recalled the letter writer, better known today as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, as she was enshrined Saturday in the National Women's Hall of Fame, along with nine other inductees.
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