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Female astronauts: How performance products like space suits and bras are designed to pave the way for women's accomplishments

  • Written by Susan L. Sokolowski, Director & Associate Professor: Sports Product Design, University of Oregon
Anne McClain of NASA runs through procedures in the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft during a vehicle fit check Nov. 20. NASA/Victor Zelentsov, CC BY-ND

On my first day of spring break, I woke up to way more emails than necessary and a flurry of activity on my social media. Acquaintances from near and far wrote about “patriarchy,” “NASA...

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