“Erasure of Mercury 13” with Sue Nelson
Directionally Challenged
Kayla Ewell
4.9 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Science Journalist Sue Nelson, author of, “Wally Funk's Race for Space: The Extraordinary Story of a Female Aviation Pioneer,” walks us through the history of thirteen American women who successfully underwent the same training as the astronauts selected by NASA for Project Mercury but weren’t given the opportunity to travel to space, and how Wally Funk’s dream finally became reality when she was able to board Jeff Bezo’s Blue Origin and become the oldest person to ever go into space.
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| 0:09.2 | This is what they want. |
| 0:10.1 | America's sweetheart. |
| 0:11.1 | You won't give it to them. |
| 0:12.2 | She has to watch me. |
| 0:13.7 | I want to dance with somebody only in Sima's from Boxing Day. |
| 0:28.7 | Hey guys, it's Candace and Kayla and we are directionally challenged. |
| 0:36.3 | Oh yeah, we thought we'd have it all figured out by the time we were at 30. |
| 0:39.9 | But surprise, we don't. |
| 0:41.9 | No, we don't. But that's cool. |
| 0:44.9 | It's cool. It's all good. |
| 0:46.9 | It really is. We are owning it more and more each episode. |
| 0:50.9 | So Kayla, what do you think exists in outer space? |
| 0:57.9 | Like are you into space at all? |
| 0:59.9 | Like I feel like maybe there's been an evening where maybe we've, |
| 1:04.9 | we'll just call it had a few cocktails and talked about like what exists out in the world. |
| 1:10.9 | I feel like everyone ends up having an alien conversation in their friendship. |
| 1:13.9 | We've definitely had one. |
| 1:14.9 | Right. I mean, there's got to be some sort of extraterrestrial life up there. |
| 1:19.9 | It's not something I've explored. |
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