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Mercury 13: Women Astronauts by api-509619591 is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document summarizes the story of the Mercury 13, a group of female pilots in the 1960s who passed astronaut testing matching that given to male astronauts, but were denied the chance to actually go to space by NASA due to their gender. It details the extensive testing the women underwent and how they outperformed expectations. However, due to the social norms of the 1960s and NASA
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