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From: schuh@fluke.UUCP (Michael L. Schuh)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: women shuttle crew members/space sickness
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Date: Fri, 5-Oct-84 08:48:04 EDT
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[stay tuned for our next episode of 'Line-eating Bugs in Space']

  We had some discussion in this news group recently about when will a woman
be the pilot of a shuttle mission.  Apparently it will be a while.  My
question is: when will there be a mission comprised of just women?  It would
be only fair, given the number of all male flight crews to date (BTW it
wasn't until June of this year that commercial aviation had its first all
female cockpit crew - definitely a ways to go).
  Thinking about unmixed flight crews leads to another question: what effect
will this have on 'space sickness'?  (I could also ask about problems with
the toilet...)  Some time ago I read a minor newspaper article about space
sickness on shuttle flights.  It seems that only two shuttle flights were
without sickness related problems: the two with women on board.  The theory
was that perhaps the men were reluctant to show any apparent signs of
weakness with any women around.  Perhaps this applied to the two women as
well.  So here's my question: Would an all women crew exhibit symptoms of
space sickness?  Or are women just not as susceptible as men to orbital
nausea?  (Which is the stronger sex, etc... does this belong in net.women?)
  My on going thanks to Roger Noe for his keeping us informed.

Mike Schuh - ms274G- John Fluke Mfg Co - Box C9090 - Everett WA 98206 USA
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P.S. Saw the current mission take off an hour and a half ago - why can't the
launches be at 7:03 am PDT?