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Mercury 13

When the Apollo 11 mission to the moon was in its early stages, a group of 13 women were recruited to undergo tests to see if they, in addition to the male astronauts, might also have the necessary endurance for such a mission. Sue Nelson has this report on what happened to those women and why they never made it into space.

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