President D. Eisenhower deemed that astronaut candidates should be recruited only from the ranks of military fighter jet test pilots – at the time, women were barred from the role. https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2022/01/08/sixty_years_ago_nasa_scientists_found_that_women_would_be_better_astronauts_their_work_was_never_published_807835.html
@estherschindler well known that women candidates handled stress better and physically tested better than men was one of the early space programs major faults when couldn't become test pilots
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Common sense would tell you they would make better astronauts, when you're counting every ounce of weight in the capsule.