"thought that it had to be a tall, pink man that interacted with the astronauts, and that nobody was going to listen to a little brown woman."
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Patricia S. Cowings
Patricia S. Cowings (born December 15, 1948) is an aerospace psychophysiologist. She was the first American woman to be trained as a scientist astronaut by NASA; though she was an alternate for a space flight in 1979, she did not travel to space. She is most known for her studies in the physiology of astronauts in outer space, as well as helping find cures for astronaut's motion sickness.
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