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Re:Nasa head of human spaceflight resigns days before 'histo... by oh_sigh on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @01:44PM (#23249658)
Weren't all of the people who went into space up until at least the mid 70s all naval/AF aviators/test pilots? Was there any chance for them to be women since women couldn't be test pilots back then?
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Re:Nasa head of human spaceflight resigns days before 'histo... by nickff on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @01:47PM (#23249701)
Johnson had a meeting with some advocates who made the case for a couple of women being qualified to go to the moon (I believe the meeting took place at around the time of the selection of the second group of Gemini astronauts). If you look at his hand-written notes on the meeting agenda (included in a few document collections such as the Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration), you will see that Johnson appears to have rejected the idea for... personal reasons.
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Re:Nasa head of human spaceflight resigns days before 'histo... by PopePompus on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @04:10PM (#23251188)
Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17) was not a test pilot or military aviator.
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