Thanks. A little surprised by the current proportion of people that didn’t understood that reference.
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I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 20 hours agoFor those who don’t get the joke:
Sally Ride, first female NASA astronaut to go to space: "I remember the engineers trying to decide how many tampons should fly on a one-week flight; they asked, “Is 100 the right number?”
“No. That would not be the right number.”
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 19 hours ago
It was almost half a century ago
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
To be fair, I have absolutely no idea how many tampons a woman would need either, although 10 per day seems high.
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
They last 4-8 hours. Most women bleed for 3-7 days. So on the outer edge, you could need 42. I’ve never gone through more than a box of 24 in a cycle. But the US hadn’t put a menstruating person in space before, who knew if being in space would somehow unleash a geyser of mysterious lady fluids never before seen by man.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
who knew if being in space would somehow unleash a geyser of mysterious lady fluids never before seen by man.
Fetish unlocked…
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 18 hours ago
And in that moment a new kind of propulsion was discovered
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I mean, the 10 ish day long mission that recently took 9 months happened, actually with a woman on board. If you said “100 is too much lol” and opted for 10, you’d be laughing out the other side of your face when you started having to improvise sanitation supplies after month three.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Crew_Flight_Test
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Except that 9 months took place on a space station. There were regular cargo missions to the station. And they could have been brought back at any nearly any point if necessary. Other astronauts literally went up and came back from the Station in that 9 months.
The timeframe being so long was almost entirely about the Starliner itself and what they were going to do with a known defective and potentially unusable spacecraft, where the only trained pilots were those astronauts, not anything with the astronauts themselves.
If the station wasn’t an option for whatever reason (despite it literally being part of the planned mission), then other contingencies would have been available or at least planned already. This wasn’t an Apollo 13 situation where not making it back was a serious concern.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I guess you’d run out of food before tampons without cargo shipments? Although if they are using error bars for the food, they might want to use simiar error bars for tampons too? 🤷
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 13 hours ago
Yeah but drag would still rather have 100 tampons than no tampons in that situation.
Fondots@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
To be fair, at the time, there was no ISS for the shuttle to dock to, the shuttle pretty much was all they had. It was designed for missions of about 10 days, and could be expanded to about 17 days if needed. If they needed to stretch it up to a month to go beyond that for her to have a second period, I suspect that would rather have used that cargo capacity for some extra food and such and dealt with her free-bleeding, and much beyond that they’d need to come down one way or another or just die in space.
TheBat@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
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