Remember when NASA sent a women to space...

[Humpthree]

...for only six days and they gave her one hundred tampons.

One hundred tampons.

And asked, 'Will that be enough?'

Cause they didn't know if that was enough...These are our world's greatest minds. They are literally rocket scientists.

100 tampons. One hundred tampons...

I’m going to have that stuck in my head all day now 😂

When was this?

Sorry, it wasn’t clear from your post- how many tampons was it?

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perhaps it was in case they didnt get back and floated off into space !

Sorry, hit post too early!

The link is to a song by Marcia Belsky about Sally Ride, America's first woman in Space

@MrsRobbieHart one hundred tampons. 100.

Although something I wouldn't put past them, I also do t believe everything I see on tiktok

@thetaleunfolds it's so catchy isn't it! Her YouTube version is even better:

They didn’t though. Apparently an engineer asked her if that was the right number for a week, but there is no other context given around whether it was a serious considered question or just someone throwing out a number without even thinking because they wanted her to confirm.

She wasn’t actually given that many because clearly she gave a more appropriate number.

Still, makes a more fun story.

In case of a Mark Watney situation?

www.poynter.org/tfcn/2021/did-nasa-send-a-woman-to-space-with-100-tampons/

I thought this surely has to be a joke!
But no. It's half true.

Love it, even if they had no clue about numbers needed surely they could see that would mean changing a tampon every hour and a half, including through sleep, is that genuinely what they think women have to do? Who even needs the loo that often?

@CommanderBurnham, I fact checked for you

www.poynter.org/tfcn/2021/did-nasa-send-a-woman-to-space-with-100-tampons/

like @Nesbo said, NASA didn’t actually send a woman to space with 100 tampons, like the song says. However, according to Sally Ride, NASA did ask if that was the correct number. 😂

Perhaps the engineer was thinking what is the maximum possibly required under the most extreme circumstances, might there be some sort of increased failure rate of tampons in space that requires additional redundancy built in, what happens if there is a failure in the craft that leads to a significant delay in returning to Earth, what is the psychological impact of having additional stocks vs increased payload cost…

They may have had a huge spreadsheet of variables!

Isn't it just typical though to get your fecking period when you go off on a trip anywhere even to space. Curse.

Sorry, is this an ad for Marcia, a joke post or are you seriously outraged? I can't tell.

Did you think that was the moment when she went “Hang on, I am coming back with you aren’t I?!?!”

@JaneJeffer

Isn't it just typical though to get your fecking period when you go off on a trip anywhere even to space. Curse.

Space scientists. If it's the right order of magnitude (plus or minus one) they count it as a triumph.

@JaneJeffer

Isn't it just typical though to get your fecking period when you go off on a trip anywhere even to space. Curse.

So much this. My 35 cycle became 55 this “month” (hello peri-menopause). What day did it arrive? The day before I was going to a charity skinny dip. I mean: it was actually predictable to anyone who has ever had a period!

@WeCanBeHeronsJustForOneDay

Did you think that was the moment when she went “Hang on, I am coming back with you aren’t I?!?!”

Small wins though… I’d rather they ask if it’s enough than (a) forget about menstruation altogether or (b) make the decision for me.
You could say that’s a low bar, but I wouldn’t have been surprised by either of those 🤨

@Drivingish

Love it, even if they had no clue about numbers needed surely they could see that would mean changing a tampon every hour and a half, including through sleep, is that genuinely what they think women have to do? Who even needs the loo that often?

It’s what I had to do when I had periods. Good job I’m not an astronaut I guess. Must be a twat to get in and out of that space suit everytime you need to sort yourself out.

@Drivingish

Love it, even if they had no clue about numbers needed surely they could see that would mean changing a tampon every hour and a half, including through sleep, is that genuinely what they think women have to do? Who even needs the loo that often?

Or one an hour during waking hours... which some women have to do. And it's possible that zero G would fuck with your cycle. So it's not totally outrageous, and at least they remembered!