Claire reveals the story of the Mercury 13, an amazing group of ‘hidden figures’ in the early days of the Space Race.
13 female pilots passed the same rigorous selection tests as the Mercury 7, NASA's first astronaut class. These potential female astronauts were never official NASA astronauts. Nevertheless, they were trailblazers in the early days of the Space Race, proving that women could excel at the same astronaut tests as their male counterparts and paving the way for the female NASA astronauts to come. #WomenInSpace #Space #Astronaut
