But the Soviets DID beat the Americans with the "first woman" shit. They had the first woman in space. Sally Ride was just the first AMERICAN woman in space.

For that matter, the Soviets put the FIRST EARTHLING in space, and that EARTHLING was not human, and not even a primate.

If people in the 1960s would have been upset by a woman blowing up on a rocket, it would have been because of that sexist old mindset that men are expendable, that only males make up "excess" population of a species.

But the Soviets DID beat the Americans with the "first woman" shit. They had the first woman in space. Sally Ride was just the first AMERICAN woman in space.

For that matter, the Soviets put the FIRST EARTHLING in space, and that EARTHLING was not human.