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I believe that there will be women astronauts sometime just as there are women airplane pilots.
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Airplane
Pilots
Astronauts
Sometime
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Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
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Concern
Crisis
Alteration
Foods
Societal
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I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.
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Tenure
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I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that I didn't.
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Hubble
Admit
Wondered
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A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
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Astronomy
Nasa
Formed
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The first year I was at NASA, I was only responsible for optical and ultraviolet astronomy. Frankly, there wasn't much else.
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Astronomy
Nasa
Frankly
Optical
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One of the reasons I like working with schools is to try to convince women that they can be scientists and that science can be fun.
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Convince
Scientists
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I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.
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Nasa
Dr
Secretaries
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The exciting results from the Hubble, other satellites and probes would not have been possible without innovative solutions to many technical problems.
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Hubble
Innovative
Satellites
Solutions
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In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
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Academy
Armenia
Dedication
Soviet
Soviet Union
Guest
Invitation
Observatory
Union
Received
Sciences
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Looking through the atmosphere is somewhat like looking through a piece of old, stained glass. The glass has defects in it, so the image is blurred from that.
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Atmosphere
Defects
Looking
Blurred
Old
Somewhat
Glass
Image
Piece
Stained
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I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.
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Junior High
Nashville
Born School High School
Attended
Junior
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I started out, as most astronomers do, with a university job. But in my generation, women weren't very welcome at universities, and so I found a job in the government. And the government was appreciably more welcoming.
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My Generation
Welcome
Universities
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All of the stars rotate, have orbits around the center of the galaxy, and most of them go around the center of the galaxy in nearly circular orbits. They vary a little bit from circular, but they're predominantly circular.
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Galaxy
Vary
Nearly
Circular
Rotate
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I do not remember exactly when I became interested in astronomy, but I know it was at a very young age. I did organize an astronomy club for my friends at the age of 11. We would meet once a week to learn about the constellations.
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Astronomy
Constellations
Organize
Young Age
Once A Week
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At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so opposed that if she couldn't talk a girl out of it, she just never had anything more to do with her for the four years she was there.
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Dean
Engineering
Opposed
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I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth year of Latin. She looked down her nose at me and sneered, 'What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?'
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Teacher
Algebra
Fifth
Guidance
High School
Permission
Teacher Me Remember
High
Instead
Lady
Looked
Nose
Second
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Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.
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Math
Physics
Astronomer
By The Time
Education Time Long
Figured
Grade
Seventh
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Just as the lunar landings inspired many young people to consider careers in space and related fields, the solution of the challenging instrumentation problems presented in space science can inspire young people to push beyond the current state of the art.
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Careers
Fields
Inspire
Instrumentation
Related
Current
Current State
Presented
Solution
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My career was quite unusual, so my main advice to someone interested in a career similar to my own is to remain open to change and new opportunities. I like to tell students that the jobs I took after my Ph.D. were not in existence only a few years before.
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Jobs
Advice
Existence
Unusual
Main
New Opportunities
Opportunities
Remain
Similar
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It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientific questions, while my mother took me on walks and showed me birds and plants. She also took me out at night and showed me the constellations and the aurora.
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Constellations
Walks
Answered
Plants
Scientific
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I was scheduled to graduate from high school in 1943, but I was in a course that was supposed to give us four years of high school plus a year of college in our four years. So by the end of my junior year, I would have had enough credits to graduate from high school.
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Had Enough
Junior Year
Plus
Credits
Graduate
Junior
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You cannot exploit the advantages of getting above the atmosphere unless you are able to get up there reasonably large-sized telescopes and unless you are able to keep these telescopes pointing at one region of the sky for long periods of time to a high degree of accuracy.
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Accuracy
Atmosphere
Periods
Pointing
Sky
Advantages
Exploit
Long Periods
Reasonably
Region
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One of the primary ways that astronomers study stars is to spread their light out into a rainbow, which we call a spectrum, and from that rainbow, we can learn something about what the stars are composed of and how hot they are, how bright they are, and how they're moving, at least how they're moving toward or away from us.
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Moving
Rainbow
Spectrum
Spread
Stars
Study
Bright
Composed
Primary
Toward
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