Oct 7, 2009

Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: NASA’s Lost Female Astronauts



(Wired) Imagine if the first person on the moon had proclaimed, “That’s one small step for woman, one giant leap for mankind.”
It could have happened. In the late 1950s, the United States government contemplated training women as astronauts, and newly released medical test results show that they were just as cool and tough as the men who went to the moon. Continued


Photo: NASA via Wikipedia

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