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Originally Posted by Jolly Amaranto

Yup. Many of the team were of European descent. There were also folks who were of Asian and African descent. All humans and no space aliens as far I know. Oh yeah, there were also a lot of women.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/nasas-rocket-girls-are-no-longer-forgotten-history-180958791/

Okay, not really relative to the above comment but interesting to note that not one of those woman is overweight. What a contrast to today.