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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Oral Histories 20160701

Smithsonian national air and Space Museum Live this evening beginning at 6 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan 3s American History tv. Next on American History tv, nasas earliest days with wally funk. One of 13 women selected to be the first lady astronaut trainees or f. L. A. T. S, this is sometimes called the mercury 13, as they underwent some of the same physiological tests as their male counterparts, the mercury 7 astronauts. Unlike the mercury 7, these women never flew a nasa mission. Funk was interviewed as part of the Nasa Johnson Space Center oral history collection. This is about 50 minutes. This is carol butler and im doing an oral history for the Nasa History Office with wally funk. Reti ....

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