2026-04-09 10:04 UTC
Ride's first space flight took place more than 20 years after cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space. Part of NASA's delay in sending a woman to space was that they were worried menstrual blood would flow backwards in microgravity, wreaking all sorts of havoc.
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@vagina_museum@masto.ai 2026-04-09 10:07
(incidentally, sometimes period blood *does* flow backwards into the pelvic cavity. It turns out that this is usually perfectly harmless, more on retrograde menstruation here:) https://masto.ai/@vagina_museum/111381001900415323
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@BigTittyBimbo@autonomous.zone 2026-04-09 10:06
@vagina_museum Could menstrual blood not provide some form of propulsion perhaps?
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@schratze@todon.nl 2026-04-09 10:34
@vagina_museum and, of course, the uterus could become loose in microgravity and tumble around within the female body, causing hysteria.
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@suetanvil@freeradical.zone 2026-04-09 12:02
@vagina_museum *Worst* *Alien* *Sequel* *Ever!* (And yes, I know about Prometheus.)