The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts - Mo News Interview

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@mosheh / tentwentytwo

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🗓️ 22 September 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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It is a riveting history: How America chose the first six women to go into space and how the first female astronauts overcame adversity and sexism. We talk about all of it in our conversation with space journalist Loren Grush. Her new book, “The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts” reads like a movie screenplay, and provides some fascinating historical perspective into the first six American women in space. As of 1973, the US had sent three females into space: Two spiders and a monkey. We discuss how NASA went about realizing it was time to bring women into space and what challenges the women faced when they got there. Tune in for the history and the ridiculous story involving NASA engineers and tampons. —- Mosheh Oinounou (@mosheh) is an Emmy and Murrow award-winning journalist. He has 20 years of experience at networks including Fox News, Bloomberg Television and CBS News, where he was the executive producer of the CBS Evening News and launched the network's 24 hour news channel. He founded the @mosheh Instagram news account in 2020 and the Mo News podcast and newsletter in 2022. Follow Mo News on all platforms: Website: www.mo.news Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mosheh/ Daily Newsletter: https://www.mo.news/newsletter Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@monews Twitter: https://twitter.com/mosheh TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mosheh Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MoshehNews Snapchat: https://t.snapchat.com/pO9xpLY9

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome back to the Moe News podcast, I'm Moe Schwannu, and we have a special
0:08.3	edition of the pod today.
0:09.8	It's an interview with a journalist and author named Lauren Grush, and she's written
0:13.6	a new book called The Six, the Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts.
0:19.0	It's a fascinating, riveting story, I think you'll get a lot out of it, and she tells
0:23.2	a story of Sally Rye, Judy Resnick, Anna Fisher, Kathy Sullivan, Shannon Lucid, and Ray
0:28.4	Sedden.
0:29.4	The first six women chosen in the late 70s to go into space, many of us are familiar with
0:34.8	the Sally Rye story, but these other women, fascinating, and this conversation will give
0:40.1	you a sense of what was happening with the space program, why it took so long, you know,
0:43.7	the Russians put the first woman in space in the early 60s, it took the US another 20 years.
0:50.2	Why is that?
0:51.4	And what sort of things that these women have to deal with once they got into NASA?
0:55.4	This is sort of a natural progression from the recent film Hidden Figures, if you read
0:59.5	that book or saw that film, and I think you'll really get a lot out of this conversation.
1:03.7	It'll really give you a sense of the challenges that they face, the adversity they had to overcome,
1:09.0	to really be there and be the first ones, to break through those barriers as they were
1:14.4	breaking through new barriers in space.
1:17.6	Before we get started with this conversation, I'm reminded to consider joining Mo News
1:20.5	Premium for early access to podcast episodes like this one, as well as extra clips and
1:26.1	deep dives over at our members' only Instagram account.
1:29.2	It's where I answer questions on a daily basis, as well as offer a weekly Mo News quiz,
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