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Re:Astronaut Selection by CraigJPerry on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @07:39AM (#10695993)
I watched a press conference about astronaut selection from the 60s. The press mostly wanted to know about religious persuasions and marital statuses which felt like major culture shock to me.
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Re:Astronaut Selection by rjsw on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @07:51AM (#10696030)
You might like to read The Right Stuff [1], the film is good too but the book goes into quite a bit of detail on how the astronauts were seen as representing the nation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_Stuff_%28book%29

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Re:Astronaut Selection by hudibras on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @08:56AM (#10696305)
One of the Apollo astronauts was essentially fired for having an extra-marital affair with his future wife.
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