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"When Mary Wallace “Wally” Funk reached the boundary of space aboard the first
crewed flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard capsule earlier today, it marked the
end of a journey she started 60 years ago. In 1961 she became the youngest
member of what would later become known as the “Mercury 13”, a group of
accomplished female aviators that volunteered to be put through the same
physical and mental qualification tests that NASA’s Mercury astronauts went
through. But the promising experiment was cut short by the space agency’s rigid
requirements for potential astronauts, and what John Glenn referred to in his
testimony to the Committee on Science and Astronautics as the “social order” of
America at the time."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
