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Actually they Had already hired some pilots, circus performers, even a woman..Johnson said hell with that, we got test pilots -- nm
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zeitgeist
They trained an entire group of women to launch and they performed better than the men. The optics of a woman dying in a launch
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🕸 TWuG 🚀 (aka TWuG)
Oct 13 '20, 15:38
scared NASA away from certifying them.
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The Mercury 13 as they would later be dubbed. They not only performed better, they were in some ways physically better suited for space flight -- (edited)
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JD
Oct 13, 15:47
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