Vagina Museum on Nostr: Ride's first space flight took place more than 20 years after cosmonaut Valentina ...

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.