Resistance to Women as Astronauts
1. NASA Qualifications: Women could not become jet test pilots.
 Source: Congressional House Special Subcommittee Hearing on the Selection of Astronauts of the Committee on Science and Astronautics. (1962) |
Source: Library of Congress. (1962).M. Scott Carpenter (left) and John Glenn testifying at House subcommittee hearings on the future role of women in space. Congressional Subcommittee Hearing.
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2. "Social Order"
Source: Congressional House Special Subcommittee Hearing on the Selection of Astronauts of the Committee on Science and Astronautics. (1962)
3. Opposition by the Press
 Source: Bob Fenley. "Astro-nettes' Next? Let Cosmos Beware!" Dallas Times Herald. March 15, 1962. |
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4. Slowing the Space Race
Mercury 13, the Secret Astronauts. New York, NY: A & E Television Networks, 1998.
5. Protecting the Place of White Males
Source: Stone, Tanya Lee, and Margaret A. Weitekamp. Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream. Somerville: Candlewick Press, 2009.
6. Men are Best Fitted Anyways
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 Source: Luce, Clare B. "But Some People Simply Never Get the Message." Life Magazine 28 June 1963: p. 31. Print. |
7. Spaceships are not built for Men and Women
Source: Foster, Amy E. Integrating Women into the Astronaut Corps. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2011. Print.