Happy Birthday Cecilia Payne

Cecilia Payne
May 10, 2016

Cecilia Payne deserves to be far more famous than she is. She discovered what the stars are made of. Cecilia was born in Wendover on May 10, 1900, so she’d be 116 today. Her father died when she was just 4 years old. She won a scholarship to Cambridge university to study botany. She switched to astronomy after a year after attending a lecture by Arthur Eddington and passed her exams,…

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R.I.P. Sally Ride

Sally Ride, the first American woman in space
July 23, 2012

  Sally Ride, the first American astronaut, died today at the young age of 62. She is survived by her partner of 27 years, Tam E. O’Shaughnessy.

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