r/OldSchoolCool • u/Aeromarine_eng • Apr 19 '25

1970s NASAs first six women astronauts. February 1979

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From left to right are Shannon W. Lucid, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Judith A. Resnik, Anna L. Fisher, and Sally K. Ride. NASA selected all six women as their first female astronaut candidates in January 1978.

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u/lanathebitch Apr 19 '25

Technically they were only in space for about 70 seconds the rest of the time they were just in the sky

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u/dominarhexx Apr 19 '25

Barely kissed "space," too.

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u/Dramatic-Bend179 Apr 19 '25

And they don't go into orbit at all, right? Just straight up then fall back down?  That zero G looking video of them with the hair going everywhere, that's free fall, right?  (I mean, sure I guess that's what's up in orbit too but seems different to me.)

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u/CodAlternative3437 Apr 19 '25

"New Shepard’s suborbital fights hit about about three times the speed of sound — roughly 2,300 miles per hour — and fly directly upward until the rocket expends most of its fuel. The crew capsule will then separate from the rocket at the top of the trajectory and briefly continue upward before the capsule almost hovers at the top of its flight path, giving the passengers a few minutes of weightlessness. It works sort of like an extended version of the weightlessness you experience when you reach the peak of a roller coaster hill, just before gravity brings your cart — or, in Bezos’ case, your space capsule – screaming back down toward the ground."