Yet of the original 16 Project Gemini astronauts, 11 are still alive. All in their ‘80’s.
Of the 5 who died, Grissom and White were killed in Apollo 1. Conrad died in a motorcycle accident at age 69. Gordon Cooper of a heart attack after suffering from Parkinson’s at age 77. Only Wally Schirra suffered from lung cancer before dying of a heart attack at age 84. This may have been a result of his being a pack a day smoker.
I’ve met Jim Lovell in his restaurant in Lake Forest. He’s a really nice guy. Good restaurant too.
I know, but cancer is statistical in nature. The official health model is for a linear, no threshold response. I was pointing out that she was exposed to an environment others are not.
Tereshkova is still alive, so there may not be anything special about being a woman in space.
While homosexual men have a raft of health issues, there does not seem to be a corresponding bunch of problems for homosexual women. There may be elevated instances of breast cancer, but that’s not a strong correlation. There is no correlation to pancreatic cancer that I could find documented.