[CondoleezzaProtege]

In its heyday, the Soviet space program was a platform for propagating atheism.

“I see no God up here.” Yuri Gagarin (though this is disputed now.)

Meanwhile US astronauts on the Apollo 8 mission in Christmas of 1968 read Bible passages from the Book of Genesis.

https://www.nasa.gov/topics/history/features/apollo_8.html

[relictele]

I always found it hilarious - and shameful - that so many in officialdom and media let people think that Sally Ride was the first woman in space.

It was equally shameful and hilarious that she and others concealed that she was a lesbian - even though any non-blind person could tell from a mile away. Of course, they would preemptively fault the public for noticing and minding as a smokescreen for their subterfuge.

[hinckley buzzard]

I was in Germany when she went into orbit. I remember the headline in the German newspaper: “Ein Kuss von Leer!”