[oh8eleven]

Neil Armstrong
C'mon, he couldn't have been all that important. When he died, my local Gannett rag printed the story on page 4.
And you know the only reason he got into NASA was because of white privilege.

Actually, he was one of the bravest men who ever lived.

[Kartographer]

"Actually, he was one of the bravest men who ever lived."

He was also the very definition of modesty. The man could have wrote his own ticket forever and yet went on to live a quiet modest life. The temptations he must have resist.

[a fool in paradise]

Didn’t Hillary claim she wanted to be an astronaut but was stifled by male privilege?

http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2310/1

The fiftieth anniversary of the first woman in space is a fitting hook to look back over the long process of enabling gender-independent access to the final frontier. One of the interesting secondary tales associated with this theme is the campaign story offered by Hillary Clinton that, in 1961–2, she wrote to NASA about her interest on becoming an astronaut, and they dismayed and angered her by replying, “We don’t take girls.”..

The story is clearly politically useful, and comments on its actual authenticity have predictably split along partisan lines. Clinton herself never indicated she kept the letter, so there’s no documentation at her end.

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A crew of merchant marines were about to ship out and the women were saying their goodbyes. As they did so, a dog ran and jumped on the boat.

One of the women asked, why can’t any women come along?

The captain replied, because nobody gets upset about who pets the dog.

[Bigg Red]

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