Not unlike her subject she is one of the only academically trained young female space flight historians running for a general audience. Hosted by discover magazine. Its also a Youtube Channel with over 325,000 subscribers. Among them the unexplained files. Please give a warm welcome to Amy Shira Teitel [applause]. Good morning everyone. Try to live up to everything. Who here has heard of the story mercury 13. There is a decent number of hands. There was no way to print my talk. If you dont know the story of that mercury 13 i will explain it all later. It is a story of everything and air quotes right now. Thirteen women who trained for spaceflights and took on nasa with the goal of writing the wrong of sexism. Nasa at the time did not allow women into the astronaut corps. They decided they needed to have this change. It went all the way to the house subcommittee hearing. It didnt work. The spaceflight pioneers were astronaut candidates. According to nbc. They trained for space flight. A
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