NSN Webinar: The Wrong Stuff: NASA and the Mercury 13 Astronauts
Channel: NASA Night Sky Network
Date: 2017-03-17

Amy Shira Teitel (Vintage Space) joined Night Sky Network club members to tell the story of an amazing group of women who qualified as astronauts in the earliest days of the space program. In 1962, thirteen women qualified as Mercury astronauts, but the social landscape of the 1960s kept them out of the spacecraft. 

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