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Mercury 13 is a 2018 documentary film about the Mercury 13, thirteen American woman pilots who in 1960 took and passed the same tests given the previous year to the Mercury 7, the astronauts selected by NASA for Project Mercury.
After rigorous testing in 1961, a small group of skilled female pilots are asked to step aside when only men are selected for spaceflight. Watch trailers & learn more.
May 29, 2018 · In April, Netflix debuted Mercury 13, a documentary about a trailblazing group of 13 women in the 1960s who could have been the first US female astronauts, if their training program hadn’t...
Apr 19, 2018 · History. Space. How the Real Pilots of Mercury 13 Made the Case for the U.S. to Send Women to Space. 7 minute read. Jerrie Cobb, 29, Okla. City, stands beside a model of the G.E. Discoverer...
Women train and test for space flight in 1961, but their dreams are dashed when only men are selected to become astronauts.
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Apr 20, 2018 · I thought about this conversation a lot while watching the Netflix-produced documentary "Mercury 13," about the 13 female pilots who underwent astronaut training in the late 1950s/early '60s, in tandem with the first astronauts of NASA's space program.
Mercury 13 2018 | Maturity Rating: TV-PG | 1h 19m | Science & Nature Docs After rigorous testing in 1961, a small group of skilled female pilots are asked to step aside when only men are selected for spaceflight.
