When she was about 14, Hillary Clinton says, she wrote to NASA volunteering for astronaut training.
NASA's reply was simple and definitive: No girls.
"It was the first time I had hit an obstacle I couldn't overcome with hard work and determination, and I was outraged," she would write in her book, "Living History."
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