Rocket women: How a secret program paved the way for female astronauts
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Are You Raising Women in Space?
The women went through a secret astronaut testing program in the 1960s. All of the women were highly trained pilots with thousands of hours of flying experience. And 13 of them passed the first round of testing. But then someone contacts NASA and basically says, hey, did you know there are women training to be astronauts? Did you authorize this testing?
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