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Womankind's giant leap: who will be the first female moonwalker?

NASA's current roster of female astronauts. [AFP]

Who will take the giant leap for womankind?

More than fifty years after the end of the Apollo program, NASA plans to return to the Moon by 2024 as a "proving ground" to test the next generation of spacecraft ahead of an eventual crewed mission to Mars.

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