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Inside Europe - Russia's plans for women in space

Charles MaynesJanuary 28, 2016

The new Star Wars film, The Force Awakens, features women in several key roles in that galaxy far, far away. But how about in our own? In fact, just a quarter of NASA's astronauts are currently woman. And in Russia, which has the world's second largest space programme, female cosmonauts are an even rarer sight. But as Charles Maynes reports from Moscow, that may change.

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