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I agree, Tereshkova was mainly for propaganda. However, she did prove that a woman could be flung into into outer space in a tiny tin can and be brave enough come back with a smile.
But meanwhile in America, throughout the sixties, NASA tested women for spaceflight. All the data said that the women being tested performed as well as, if not better than, than the men who were already in the astronaut program.
But the data was not acted upon. Instead they treated it like the Nixon/Ford administration treated the evidence that THC kills breast and lung cancer cells -- they buried so deeply that it literally vanished from public view for 20 years.
That's not something to be proud of.
They buried scientific data and conducted their astronaut program as if this data had never been gathered in their labs.
Lying about science is something that really burns me and I have a hard time forgiving it when I see it happen.
Now thank goodness the lies have finally lost all their power.
