{"id":24300,"date":"2010-04-12T10:50:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T15:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=24300"},"modified":"2010-04-12T10:51:55","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T15:51:55","slug":"mercury-13-the-women-of-the-mercury-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/mercury-13-the-women-of-the-mercury-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury 13 &#8211;  the Women of the Mercury era"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24301\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24301\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/merx13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24301\" title=\"25 women, narrowed down to 13, who participated in and passed the very same physical and psychological tests that determined the original astronauts.  Jerrie Cobb with a Mercury capsule. \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/merx13.jpg?resize=610%2C406&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"25 women, narrowed down to 13, who participated in and passed the very same physical and psychological tests that determined the original astronauts.  Jerrie Cobb with a Mercury capsule.\" width=\"610\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/merx13.jpg?w=610&amp;ssl=1 610w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/merx13.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24301\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This week in 1959, 13 female pilots proved they were as fit  to go into space as the men who became immortalized as America&#39;s first  astronauts. The women underwent the same intensive  medical tests, at the same Albuquerque, New Mexico, clinic,  administered by the same staff, as the men did. &quot;When  you put them next to the men, they were as good or better,&quot; recalled  Dr. Donald Kilgore, who helped test both the men and women between 1959  and 1961 at the Lovelace Clinic.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}