Thanks for this. Amy Shira Teitel is an important and insightful writer about spaceflight history.

Because we live in OUR times, with our own tunnel vision, we often fail to see that people in other times had the same affliction.

John Glenn has often be identified as an opponent of women in space—and he was. Although he was often an exceedingly kind man, he—like most of us—could not see beyond the culture of the world into which he was born.

Someday, if we get through the current challenges that history has set for us, we will see our own folly, from a comfortable distance in time.

Oh, wait! The writer here is Emily Carney. Emily is ALSO an very important writer and an insightful voice!