Blog, vintage space, hosted by Discover Magazine which is also a Youtube Channel with over 325,000 subscribers. She is a regular writer for discovery seeker and has hosted numerous space and science related shows. Among them, nasas unexplained files but she gives talk about spaceflights all around the u. S. And america. Please give a warm welcome to amy teitel. [applause] guest bring it down to short level. [laughter] good morning everyone and thank you for coming out to listen to me talk first thing in the morning for some including myself. Something weird about hearing your bio read like that. I will try to live up to everything that was just intensely said about me. So, i want to start with a brief conversation of who has heard of the socalled mure andry trent mercury 13 . Oh theres a decent number of hands, maybe 15 or 20, sometimes called the first lady astronaut training. Sorry, theres no way to print my talks im gonna read this bit off my phone. [laughter] if you dont know the s
Cannot expose other people. We dont want to put communities at risk. Brennan but people who do test positive could be disbursed to military bases around the country . Well, we are going to try to keep them attained as possible, but we are going to make sure, and as close as possie, warg mae can ep tm froexg the rennanwe shod you have at the white house every day . Exactly and again i would refer you to ambassador birch for more information on that. We want to make sure the American People know we arelth e people on that ship, getting them off the ship as quickly as possible, as safely as possibleg homes in particular are very vulnerable, older people are being advised as you heard from dr. Fauci they are to reconsider putting themselves in certain circumstances. Would you tell someone over the age of, what, 55, 60, i mean, what is the age group you are saying should not get on a plane or get on a cruise ship . Well, great question. And we have gotten new data emerging, we know that the
Youtube channel with 325,000 subscribers. She has hosted numerous space and science related shows, among them nasas unexplained and she gives talks about spaceflight all over the u. S. And america. Please give a warm welcome to amy teitel. [applause] bring it down to short level. [laughter] good morning, everyone and thank you for coming to listen to me talk first thing in the morning including myself. There is Something Weird about hearing your bio read like that. Ill try to live up to everything that was said about me. So, i want to start with the presentation of who has heard of the story of the mercury 13, look at the number of hands, 15 or 20 some times called the astronaut trainees. There is no way to. My talk swell rita off the phone. If you do not know the story of the mercury 13 i will explain it later dont worry. Its a story of 13 women who train for spaceflight in the 1960s and took on nasa with the goal of writing the wrong of sexism. Nasa at the time did not allow women to
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Despite the century that has elapsed our constitution still does not recognize or guarantee full protection of the law for women and gender minorities. Hj resolution 79 would bring us one step closer. The resolution removes the previous deadline set for ratifying the e. R. A. And will ensure that recent ratifications by nevada , illinois, in virginia are given full effect. The e. R. A. Offers a basic and fundamental guarantee, the equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. Thats it. Very simple. In the years since it was passed by overwhelming majorities in the house and senate we have made Great Strides to secure that equality including through existing case law signed under the 14th amendment. The e. R. A. Would enshrine those principles and take the final step of ensuring that laws disadvantaging women and gender minorities are subject to the most rigorous form of constitutional scrutiny. In recent years w