I'm not a big space or plane buff, so I read this more as an interest in the history of women. And boy, nothing can get you fired up more than hearing how women lived back then and the bullshit they had to deal with on a daily basis. On more than one occasion I was completely incensed with the bullshit double standards men imposed on women back then without applying it to themselves.

Regardless, these women were brave and determined and I know that in the face of that sort of society, I would have crumbled. There's no way I could have the moxie to blaze my own trail through that muck of bullshit. Even though they were strong women, I don't think I would have cared for them personally. They were both petty in their own rights and it sounds like despite all they did, the end of their lives were left to obscurity.