To be fair, I doubt the Space Shuttle could have sustained astronauts in orbit for 286 days in any case, for reasons entirely unrelated to tampons. At least not without docking to the ISS, anyway, which STS-7 didn’t do (in part because it didn’t exist yet).
To be fair, I doubt the Space Shuttle could have sustained astronauts in orbit for 286 days in any case, for reasons entirely unrelated to tampons. At least not without docking to the ISS, anyway, which STS-7 didn’t do (in part because it didn’t exist yet).
There’s an idea.
Maybe they actually gave her a reasonable amount of tampons for the maximum amount of time she could expect to survive in a disaster.