lpetrich
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UFOTV® Presents - WOMEN IN SPACE - FEATURE FILM - YouTube -- about NASA's female astronauts. Though its distributor distributes a lot of UFO and ancient-astronaut stuff, there was none in this video. Not even a discussion of the female human(oid) UFOnauts reported by some UFO contactees.
Narrated by Nichelle Nichols, Lt. Uhura on Star Trek.
NASA originally started with military test pilots, the sort of people who'd have experience with advanced and dangerous flying vehicles. But they were all male. However, NASA assessed several women, and found them to be as good as men. But NASA stopped in 1961.
Then the Russians sent up Valentina Tereshkova in 1963, and she stayed up for 3 days, more than the total of the Americans at the time.
The Russians sent up no others until the 1980's, and neither did the Americans. But the Russians sent up a second woman, Svetlana Savitskaya, in 1982, before the first American one, Sally Ride, in 1983 ( List of female astronauts).
Narrated by Nichelle Nichols, Lt. Uhura on Star Trek.
NASA originally started with military test pilots, the sort of people who'd have experience with advanced and dangerous flying vehicles. But they were all male. However, NASA assessed several women, and found them to be as good as men. But NASA stopped in 1961.
Then the Russians sent up Valentina Tereshkova in 1963, and she stayed up for 3 days, more than the total of the Americans at the time.
The Russians sent up no others until the 1980's, and neither did the Americans. But the Russians sent up a second woman, Svetlana Savitskaya, in 1982, before the first American one, Sally Ride, in 1983 ( List of female astronauts).