Did y’all see this? “NASA officials were concerned, among other things, about women’s inexperience flying experimental military aircraft (due to being barred from the Air Force) and also about menstruation.”
Dang.
Did y’all see this? “NASA officials were concerned, among other things, about women’s inexperience flying experimental military aircraft (due to being barred from the Air Force) and also about menstruation.”
Dang.
Tiny Cat Pants 
Here’s the attitude they need to take!
Aunt B, this was perfectly reasonable. After all, where was NASA going to build the small earthen hovel in which those gals were to spend their unclean time?
I thought NASA had phased out the earthen hovel by ’63 and was on to some kind of plastic hovel, easy for transporting.
Oh, it gets better. The women candidates had far more flight experience than the men chosen.
Well, menstruation is icky. Hence thousands of years of oppression …
You also have to understand how much R&D time and money would have been allocated to menstruation mitigation procedures because it isn’t like women have spent forever working that out for themselves or anything.