In the September issue of Ms, the Women's Lib organ suggested that NASA is a male-chauvinist bastion that has barred qualified women from competing for berths as astronauts. Whatever the truth of that charge, the space agency is apparently moving closer to the day when women will be allowed to fly in space. NASA this week is completing tests on a dozen women at the Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., to determine how females respond to the physiological stresses of spaceflight.
Involved in the five-week program are twelve Air Force flight nurses...
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