![At the Kennedy Space Center, seven women who once aspired to fly into space stand outside Launch Pad 39B neat the Space Shuttle Discovery, poised for liftoff on the first flight of 1995. They are members of the First Lady Astronaut Trainees (FLATs, also known as the](https://staging.pbs.org/independentlens/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/FLATSwomenofNASA-650x650-c-default.jpg)
Beyond the Films
June 28, 2019
Women of the Space Agency: Once Forbidden, No Longer Hidden
Independent Lens in Beyond the Films
By Heather Archuletta In July of 1999, on Apollo 11’s 30th anniversary, at a Kennedy Space Center press conference, NASA astronaut and first moonwalker Neil Armstrong lamented, “School children used…...