First woman: Smithsonian Air and Space director looks from the moon to Mars

Ellen Stofan made history this summer when she became the first female director of the third-most-visited museum in the world

On the red carpet beneath an Apollo lunar module and Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St Louis, actors Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy mingled with astronauts, Nasa engineers and members of the US Congress. Washington was staging the national premiere of a Neil Armstrong biopic. But before it saw First Man, it heard from the first woman.

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