[rada]

Equating Tereshkova to a dog is as disrespectful as it is dishonest.

1. Yes she threw up in space. So do ALL astronauts. So much so that NASA has procedures on how to handle that (http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/29/17970838-vomit-i...).

2. Tereshkova did not have a panic attack in space. She had a panic attack before going and was strapped into the seat against her will. Again, this is not uncommon - NASA considers behavioral and psychiatric conditions a significant risk to the integrity of its missions (http://humanresearchroadmap.nasa.gov/Risks/risk.aspx?i=99).

(An interesting aside: A 1976 Soviet space mission Союз 21 had to return early because of "interpersonal issues" but of course these were male astronauts so no one says the mission was aborted due to crew's cat fighting).

3. Tereshkova was not "unresponsive", she fixed multiple engineering/communication failures, both during flight and landing.

[jkot]

> Tereshkova did not have a panic attack in space. She had a panic attack before going and was strapped into the seat against her will.

Any source? There were two backups, and if there would be delay a few days, she would not have fly anyway.

[rada]

Fuller-Wright, a NASA-funded researcher:

"She didn't want to go," Soviet space scientists told me. "At the last minute, she panicked, and they had to strap her into her seat against her will."

[huhtenberg]

> Equating Tereshkova to a dog is as disrespectful as it is dishonest.

.. as is taking what being said out of context and twisting it into something it wasn't.

[rada]

It is not actually possible to take words in a threaded conversation out of context and twist them. The entire thread and your unaltered, original words are right there, for all to see.