[General Battuta]

Weird, but understandable for the time. It would've been awesome if it had gone forward, though. And if it had stuck for the whole space program? We'd be living in a different country!

Amazing how much better they did on some of those tests.

(Kind of snubbed Tereshkova in there somewhere...)

[redsniper]

Cool.

[lostllama]

Yeah, it would've been awesome if it had been allowed to progress. I remember watching a documentary about the female candidates some years ago. According to that documentary, it was Lyndon Johnson that had the project terminated (or at least had some influence in having it cancelled). It showed the actual memo or letter (or somesuch document) that mentioned the progress of the project, and upon which he had scrawled in big letters "Lets put a stop to this now!" or words to that effect.