WOMEN IN SPACE
Training In U.S. (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) WASHINGTON, May 21. About a dozen women have undergone training at a New Mexico medical clinic as possible United States astronauts. the head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Mr James Webb) said today. He added, however, that the agency had no plans at present to use the women. Mr Webb, who was interviewed by Senator Kenneth Keating on a television programme, said the United States Government would recruit new astronauts for the Apollo programme scheduled to follow the current Project Mercury man-in-space flights. In Apollo, three astronauts will ride a space craft into orbit around the earth. Mr Webb said he looked for Apollp. flights within two to three years.
He did not rule out the possibility that some of the present seven United States astronauts would take part in the flights.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29520, 23 May 1961, Page 17
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