Sally Ride

🚀🪐Rocket Science vs. Female Anatomy: Sally Ride Takes Flight 👩‍🚀🌌

Before 1983, American space travel was an all-boys club where astrophysics made total sense, but basic female biology was rocket science. Enter Sally Ride: physicist, tennis champ, and the woman NASA sent into orbit alongside a baffling packing list of 100 tampons for a six-day mission. (was there maybe an actual thinking behind it?)

Join us as we explore how Sally handled sexist press questions, operated the shuttle arm, helped investigate the Challenger disaster, and lived history on her own terms—with a quick pitstop to ask: Is Neil Armstrong’s lunar poo still out there?

Chapters:

0:00:00 Intro & overview (all moonwalkers great and small)

0:05:00 Who was Sally Ride?

0:07:36 Setting the scene: NASA & women in space

0:19:42 Sally joining NASA

0:24:52 A little tangent: Is Neil Armstrong’s poo still on the moon?

0:28:27 Sally’s tasks in space & the press

0:30:42 Sally’s private life & relationships

0:33:45 A tennis tangent: Billy Jean King in 1981

0:37:24 1983: Sally goes to space (with lipstick and 100 tampons)

0:42:12 The 100 tampon story & some myth busting

0:49:00 Sally in space again, meets Tam & the Challenger disaster

0:58:23 Sally on the Challenger investigation & her later life

1:02:26 Sally’s last months & posthumous honours

1:10:12 Badass Scale & Outlook

A big Thank You to Stephen Slater for bringing us this fantastic story!

If you want to find out more about the documentary “Sally”, check out their imdb site and click here for more on the film “Apollo 11” Stephen Slater has worked on.

And credits to the fabulous Marcia Belsky for performing the “100 Tampons” song at Comedy Central Stand-up. You can watch her full video and the full song here.

You can also find and follow us on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@raidersofthelostarchive_pod

And you can email us: raidersofthelostarchive.pod@gmail.com

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