Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space, Sally Ride was just the first American woman in space, but she didn’t really share her menstrual experience.
This is such a good point. Now I’m wondering if the menstrual cup works in space, since it can be reused essentially forever, but it needs gravity to work I think…
Redundancy is one of their policies, and this is a big reason why.
Besides that though, even between women there’s a wide variety of menstrual products. What size? Maybe she uses pads or cups instead? How frequently each individual needs them varies too. Even if you’re a guy who is familiar with purchasing these for your girlfriend/wife/daughter you would still want to ask if you were in this sort of situation.
“In advance of her 1984 mission aboard the space shuttle Challenger, NASA engineers asked Sally Ride if 100 tampons would be enough for two weeks in space.”
To be fair to NASA, sometimes shit goes sideways and astronauts have to stay in space way longer than expected.
100% this, it’s not even weird.
7 days, let’s say it’s really, really heavy, and you could be looking at using 3 in a day (21).
Double that, because you’re in fucking space, you can’t just pop out for another pack (42).
Now, you’re the first woman in space - does anyone know how periods work without gravity? Double it again (84).
And just round it off to because you can’t buy packs that size (90-100)
Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space, Sally Ride was just the first American woman in space, but she didn’t really share her menstrual experience.
This is such a good point. Now I’m wondering if the menstrual cup works in space, since it can be reused essentially forever, but it needs gravity to work I think…
Redundancy is one of their policies, and this is a big reason why.
Besides that though, even between women there’s a wide variety of menstrual products. What size? Maybe she uses pads or cups instead? How frequently each individual needs them varies too. Even if you’re a guy who is familiar with purchasing these for your girlfriend/wife/daughter you would still want to ask if you were in this sort of situation.
Then they asked the wrong question.
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Literally 1984.