"She and 12 others who made the cut became known as the Mercury 13. NASA,
however, continued to insist that only qualified test pilots could enter its
astronaut program and did not admit women until 1978"
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/13/us/jane-hart-activist-and-nearly-an-astronaut-dies-at-93.html?ref=us
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one of her colleagues (I sent this note out in Jan 2014)
Courtesy of a C-Span archive from 1999 last night,
which played an interview with Ms. Wally Funk,
one of the baker's dozen (13) women who went
through the initial and parallel NASA astronaut
screening and training process in the early 1960s.
I couldn't find the clip on C-Span's website [a]
so I ul'ed a copy to:
http://youtu.be/g0JAz-VCvKc
More info at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Funk
[a] they're usually pretty good, but either I was
doing something wrong or their search engine
might have hiccupped.
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