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In response to
"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 🚀
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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)
Posted by
JD (aka Jason Dean)
Oct 13 '20, 15:47
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For those early missions where every ounce counts, it was an advantage to be physically smaller as well as their oxygen consumption rates were generally lower.
Criteria such as their lack of high speed flight experience was used to disqualify them but ummm...the only high speed aircraft are military and test planes and y'all already saw to it that women couldn't fly those so yeah, that was a fair criteria. /s
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