The Mercury 13 and the Selection of Women Astronauts

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Dec 2000

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American Astronomical Society, 197th AAS Meeting, #23.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 32, p.1439

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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In the early 1960s a question arose over the role of women in the American space program. Rumors were circulating in the space community that the Soviets were training women cosmonauts and this prompted interest in determining whether women could serve in a similar capacity in the U.S. program. A group of women, later to be called the Mercury 13, passed the initial medical tests for astronaut training, but then their program was suddenly cancelled. The first woman to fly in space would be a Russian, Valentina Tereshkova. In this talk the story of the Mercury 13 will be reviewed and the reasons for their program's termination will be discussed.

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