Mercury 13 (2018)

In 1961, thirteen women pilots passed every physical test in a private astronaut screening program, and then NASA said no. Jerrie Cobb, Wally Funk and others tell the story themselves, alongside archive footage, photographs and radio broadcasts. There is nothing upsetting here beyond the unfairness itself, and that is exactly the conversation it starts: what would you do if you were told no because of who you are? Seven of the women went to Florida in 1995 to watch the first space shuttle piloted by a woman lift off, a fact worth saving for the end of that talk.