{"id":2073,"date":"2021-07-06T15:36:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T13:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/06\/i-cant-remember-feeling-as-excited-about-the-future-redesigning-space-travel-for-women\/"},"modified":"2021-07-06T15:36:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T13:36:09","slug":"i-cant-remember-feeling-as-excited-about-the-future-redesigning-space-travel-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/06\/i-cant-remember-feeling-as-excited-about-the-future-redesigning-space-travel-for-women\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I can\u2019t remember feeling as excited about the future\u2019: redesigning space travel for women"},"content":{"rendered":"

The drive for more women and greater diversity in the space sector will lead to new ideas and innovations, from spacesuits to toilets and beyond<\/p>\n

\u201cRemember when Nasa sent a woman to space for only six days and they gave her 100 tampons and asked will that be enough?\u201d So goes last year\u2019s viral TikTok<\/a> referring to astronaut Sally Ride being asked by Nasa engineers in 1983 whether 100 tampons would be sufficient for her week-long stay in space (she was not actually sent with them).<\/p>\n

Recalling the incident some years later, Ride<\/a>, America\u2019s first woman astronaut, said: \u201cThere were probably some other, similar sorts of issues, just because they had never thought about what kind of personal equipment a female astronaut would take.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nThe drive for more women and greater diversity in the space sector will lead to new ideas and innovations, from spacesuits to toilets and beyond
\n\u201cRemember when Nasa sent a woman to space for only six days and they gave her 100 tampons and asked will that be enough?\u201d So goes last year\u2019s viral TikTok referring to astronaut Sally Ride being asked by Nasa engineers in 1983 whether 100 tampons would be sufficient for her week-long stay in space (she was not actually sent with them).
\nRecalling the incident some years later, Ride, America\u2019s first woman astronaut, said: \u201cThere were probably some other, similar sorts of issues, just because they had never thought about what kind of personal equipment a female astronaut would take.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The drive for more women and greater diversity in the space sector will lead to new ideas and innovations, from spacesuits to toilets and beyond \u201cRemember when Nasa sent a woman to space for only six days and they gave her 100 tampons and asked will that be enough?\u201d So goes last year\u2019s viral TikTok …<\/p>\n

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