Vagina MuseumSally Ride was the first American woman and first lesbian in space, first flying in 1983. Before she flew, NASA weren't really sure what a woman in space might need, so suggested providing her with 100 tampons. For a six day mission.
Agnieszka R. Turczyńska@vagina_museum Better that way, than another. The last time I've participated in so called "main stream social media" there were some men believing that one tampon for the whole period is enough...
HarriettMB@agturcz @vagina_museum One way to ensure plenty of women die from toxic shock syndrome. Or have Trump complaining they are ‘bleeding from every orifice’.
Cat Herder 💔 🗽 🇺🇲
Will 🇯🇵@HarriettMB @CatHerder @agturcz @vagina_museum he had signs put up all over the building. Didn’t one of them include the Oval Orifice?
Michael 🇺🇦I guess that this is a result of not openly talking about this topic. I was raised in a household without a father but with my mother and my sister (we even talked about the period during dinner). So talking about the period was totally normal for me. Only later I found out that many men find this topic very disturbing.
Lizzie@agturcz Let's ask a professional who was there. @Trilobyter do you have any inside knowledge about this or similar types of decisions?? @[email protected]
Trilobyter@Lizette603_23 @agturcz that was a few years before I joined the program but I’ve heard the story, and apparently she did once confirm being asked about the needed quantity in advance of the mission, and it was a big overestimate, but there’s not a clear record about what was actually provided. I also have read they thought she would need a makeup kit in space.
@Lizette603_23 @agturcz one thing I did witness over my 37 years working for NASA human spaceflight was a transition of the original mostly white male workforce into something much more diverse, including, at least in Orion S/W, pretty close to a 50/50 male/female mix. At the time of my retirement (last week) my immediate technical manager was female, as was her boss, and as was the next one above her. All excellent people to work with/for.
@Lizette603_23 @agturcz A good example, here’s a photo of the workforce in the new Science Evaluation Room (SER) in the Mission Control building at JSC this week. They provide the back room support to the Science console (also new) in the main Mission Control Room that they show on TV. (Lots of very happy people in there this week.)
@Trilobyter Thanks for the info about your experience. If I bug you asking things like this just say the word.
@Trilobyter hahahahaa omg makeup kit