An article on the Knowridge Science Report website has explained how 11 Deaf men from Gallaudet University took part in NASA testing in the 1950s.
Before NASA could send humans to space, the agency needed to better understand the effects of prolonged weightlessness on the human body.
So, in the late 1950s, NASA and the U.S. Naval School of Aviation Medicine established a joint research program to study these effects and recruited 11 deaf men aged 25-48 from Gallaudet College (now Gallaudet University).
Today, these men are known to history as the “Gallaudet Eleven”.
Read the full article here: https://knowridge.com/2017/05/how-11-deaf-men-helped-shape-nasas-human-spaceflight-program/
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Sofia
May 9, 2017
Interested article. Should have made a film like hidden figures movies!
Sofia
May 11, 2017
Make myself clarify that the film called hidden figures is 3 black women – why called hidden figures? Cos nobody knew about black women who were intelligent with maths and luckily they did work in NASA in around 1950/60s! Until this film released about them last Jan this year. So now next turn I said why not make a film about 11 deaf men like the 3 black women in hidden figures! Would love to watch film about them 11 deafies!?