Former astronaut Sally Ride, who in 1983 became the first American woman in outer space, was a panelist at a morning session at the National Academies' U.S. competitiveness convocation on Tuesday. She kicked off the day, alongside Intel Chairman Craig Barrett and Georgia Institute of Technology President Wayne Clough, by quoting late astronomer Carl Sagan: "We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."
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