Hillary: I wrote to NASA as a kid about becoming an astronaut and they told me ... - Hot Air
“When I was a little girl, I guess I was a teenager by then … 14, I think, and the space program was getting started, and I wanted to be an astronaut, and I wrote to NASA,” she recounted. “That, thankfully changed with Sally Ride and a lot of the other great women astronauts,” she said. But “to be fair,” she added, “I never could have qualified anyway, so you know, not something I spent a lot of time losing sleep over, but I really, really do support the space program. NASA policy at the time required qualification as a military test pilot. The policy, originally established by President Eisenhower in December 1958, stood until the mid-1960s when the first scientist-astronauts were selected. Although the Eisenhower selection policy did not specifically discriminate on the basis of gender, the fact that there were no women military pilots (never mind test pilots) made it clear that women would not become U. S. astronauts at that time. Six women were eventually selected to be NASA astronauts in 1978. So Hillary’s story is entirely plausible … and yet hard to believe simply because she’s lied so often in the past about ticky-tack details to make herself look more intrepid. Remember her claiming that she tried to join the Marines when she was 27 years old, having already become a law professor and with Bill running at the time for state attorney general, only to be turned down in part because she’s a woman. Source: hotair.com
