Posted on 02/23/2016 9:55:22 AM PST by Kyle Olson
For the second time this presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton is claiming a federal agency rejected her inquiries to serve because she was a woman.
Clinton, appearing Tuesday on the Steve Harvey Show, said growing up, she wanted to be an astronaut.
“I was excited about the space program. I was excited about President Kennedy saying we were gonna send a man to the moon and bring him back within the decade. I thought it was really incredible we were gonna do that,†she told Harvey.
“So, yes, I wrote to NASA,†she said.
“Really…†Harvey replied.
“I wrote to NASA, you know, and said, well, how do you get the be an astronaut. They wrote me back saying, ‘thank you very much for your interest. At this time we are not accepting women astronauts,'†she said as the audience collectively sighed.
“And it did, you know, it hurt my feelings, but I could never have been an astronaut anyway, but I was happy that Sally Ride and other women got to be astronauts later on,†she said to applause.
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Nice.
That’s gonna leave a mark.
She also dated Elvis, was an Olympic cross-country skier and even once tried out for a linebacker spot with the Cleveland Browns.
What We Kinda Wish Trump Would Tweet:
“IF she did get rejected, she let the (now deceased) men of NASA quash her dreams, unlike dozens of other NASA heroines. She folded like a cheap tent. She’s either a liar or weak.”
I thought she said she couldn’t get into the Marines.
She is not qualified.
That’s pretty funny...she’s perfect for a worm hole...but don’t mean to insult worms.
That’s pretty funny...she’s perfect for a worm hole...but don’t mean to insult worms.
Human ballast was ruled out in early space flight.
Uranus is farther away and more apropos.
Uh, don’t you have to be a scientist or a pilot or be smart about something to be an astronaut?
I also got a close-up look at a Mercury capsule in that museum.
Hillary would not have fit. No way, no how!
It is not surprising that some one with a BA would not be considered at NASA.
Nope, apparently she was counting on the qualifications to be to take a man and then to take away reason and accountability.
She says that later, NASA told her that since she was a woman and especially since she was Hillary, they would accept her absence of reason and accountability and take her. She just can’t remember who actually told her that.
LOL, I figured it had to be something like that.
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OMG Bender I didn’t know so Hillary was close of being cast in Furtrama which come up in development at 20th century fox
That reason why I love TCM behind the scenes of classic movies get this info LOL!
There is one http://www.businessinsider.com.au/nasas-rejection-letter-to-women-in-the-60s-2013-7?r=US&IR=T but it's very much connected to the Hillary claim.
OTOH James Oberg says http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2310/1
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H3ll needs to be in the Kerry blue bunny suit.
If she weren’t so disgusting, I could laugh.
In that era, NASA only recruited from the military, and only accepted applications from pilots with at least 1500 flight experience in high-performance aircraft.
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