{"id":725798,"date":"2022-06-03T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=725798"},"modified":"2022-06-03T09:24:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T13:24:00","slug":"marcia-belsky-that-time-when-nasa-almost-sent-sally-ride-to-space-with-100-tampons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=725798","title":{"rendered":"Marcia Belsky: That time when NASA (almost) sent Sally Ride to space with 100 tampons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/marciabelsky_2021w-embed_wide-b519f2f0be5d34c28e62e55d8bda81fcdd13cad1.jpg\" alt=\"Marcia Belsky performs at SESSION 2 at TEDWomen 2021: What Now? December 1-3, 2021, Palm Springs, California. Photo: Gilberto Tadday \/ TED\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ahead of her 1983 space flight, NASA suggested sending astronaut Sally Ride with 100 tampons for the week-long trip. (That&#8217;s too many.) In 2020, comedian Marcia Belsky sang a song about it.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Gilberto Tadday\/Gilberto Tadday \/ TED )<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/npr-rss-pixel-1.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/06\/03\/1102635355\/marcia-belsky-that-time-when-nasa-almost-sent-sally-ride-to-space-with-100-tampo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marcia Belsky: That time when NASA (almost) sent Sally Ride to space with 100 tampons<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of her 1983 space flight, NASA suggested sending astronaut Sally Ride with 100 tampons for the week-long trip. (That&#8217;s too many.) In 2020, comedian Marcia Belsky sang a song&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=725798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=725798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=725798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=725798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}