Lyceum & Book Club - Week 36 - Early Space Program
- Aug 21, 2022
- 1 min read
Updated: Dec 24, 2022
Book Discussion: "Almost Astronauts"
Introduction:
Women Excluded from Early Process in Space Program
Mercury 12 - women were never officially considered as candidates for astronauts, if for no other reason than the fact the system of prestige flying, from which the first pool of astronauts were selected from, was only designed with men in mind, therefore women never gained the experience to compete for such a position.
But a private experiment was conducted that had nothing to do with NASA or the military who had no interest in anything that competed with their interests & that private demonstration showed that women could have been as physically & mentally capable as their male counterparts if they had been given the same training opportunities as men.
Read Articles:
One Giant Leap - Backward
Why Did the Mercury 13 Astronauts Never Fly in Space?
She Orbits Over the Sex Barrier/ The US Team is Still Warming Up the Bench/ But Some People Never Get the Message
historical Life magazine article when RU woman was launched into space
Space Review - You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
Listen to Audio:
The Mercury 13: Training US Women for Space - 8 min
Book To Read:
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach - 2010 - 335 pages - 3 weeks to read
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