The Woman Who Should Have Been the First Female Astronaut

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 19, 2014 @06:04PM from the actually-my-grandmother-would-have-been-great-at-it-too dept.

StartsWithABang writes We like to think of the Mercury 7 — the very first group of NASA astronauts — as the "best of the best," having been chosen from a pool of over 500 of the top military test pilots after three rounds of intense physical and mental tests. Yet when women were allowed to take the same tests, one of them clearly distinguished herself, outperforming practically all of the men. If NASA had really believed in merit, Jerrie Cobb would have been the first female in space, even before Valentina Tereshkova, more than 50 years ago. She still deserves to go.

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Re:All about perception by Tanuki64 · 2014-10-19 23:50 · Score: 0, Flamebait

It's all about white men.
Sure it is all about white men. Doers do. They start and run things. Like the NASA or Air Force. The don't whine: "Wahhhhhh.... they don't give me. They don't let me. They don't work of their asses to finally heave me onto a pedestal.