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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago

Excuse me, no. That was the first human all-female space flight. The first all-female space flight was Laika, in 1957.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

But was she a shitty pop star?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

She ended up as a shitty politician

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Be glad it wasn't Gal Godot

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Still, if you think about it, it's weird no manned flight of several people had been conducted without men, but plenty without women.

Female cosmonauts/astronauts were always paired with men.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Haha, fair, didn't recognize the irony