NASA’s 1962 Shockingly Sexist Letter To An Aspiring Female Astronaut

Making the rounds around the ol’ Internet is a heartwarming letter NASA sent to a young boy who wanted to be an astronaut (link below). Unfortunateley, it wasn’t so long ago the agency sent quite the opposite type of letters to women.

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Adam Albright-Hanna

Jul 15, 2013

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