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\ n"Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved\, Joan is content with her life as a pro fessor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her prec ocious niece\, Frances. That is\, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA's space shuttle program. S uddenly\, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space. Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980\, Joan begins training at Houston's Johnson Space Center\, alongside an exceptional gro up of fellow candidates. As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights\, Joan finds a passion and a love she nev er imagined. In this new light\, Joan begins to question everything she th inks she knows about her place in the observable universe. Then\, in Decem ber of 1984\, on mission STS-LR9\, it all changes in an instant."
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