This is for stuff going on a literal space ship. I'm sure procurement was super strict on there.

Imagine getting some defective stuff (or even worse, stuff contaminated with bacteria or something like that).

I don't think they'd just let some intern tun over to the local walmart and grab supplies from there for supplies for the space shuttle.

Tbh, the story was reported by Ride on a talk show for laughs. It's not exactly a well-documented incidence.

Likely, the package they ordered had 100pcs in them (because it's meant for commercial clients) and they asked her something like "We got 100 here, how many do you need?"

It's of course fun to insinuate that NASA engineers have never been close to women and thus have no idea how tampons work, but it's more likely that this was just played up for laughs at a talk show.

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I suspect the strictness isn't with the procurement process where a contracting officer defines very specific criteria in compliance with acquisition regulations and submits the process to competitive bids. The strictness is in the mission parameters where NASA's ownership of the thing has already been established, but the NASA employees in a strict hierarchical decisionmaking process need to justify why a thing that NASA already owns should be included in the packing list on a mission.

Yeah this is the actual solution. With that said, I would be fucking stoked if I showed up to a friends house and they showered me with 100 beers.

In the end, same result. I guess it would be much harder to get a pack of stuff from Walmart onto a mission than something from a certified supplier who has a datasheet and certifications for the item. And having to order 100pcs of a very cheap product even though less would have sufficed isn't a good reason to instead have to certify tampons of unknown origin manually.

Just launching the space shuttle costed $24mio per flight (in 1977 money), so saving a dollar or two by buying fewer tampons was clearly not a priority.

355mL is 12 fl oz in Freedom Units, and is the most common soda/beer size in the US. Red Bull and other such energy drinks tend to come in a smaller form factor, oddly enough.

Potentially is doing too much heavy lifting. Everything can Potentially kill you. Excess water consumption kills you better than alcohol

Eating beef could Potentially kill you with brain parasites. Lettuce coils Potentially kill you with e coli.

Yeah there's 250ml Red Bull, which is the most common one, but then theres a larger version here which goes to 355 and I think even larger, a 473ml one.

But yeah the tiny 250 is the most common

No. We've had 6 packs, 12 packs, and cases since at least the 70s.

Source: I bought pretty much every packaging that Old Style was sold in during late 70s and early 80s.

Tampons weigh nothing

When you're dealing with the tyranny of rocketry, every gram matters.

That said, I agree with your point. The mass and volume was well within acceptable mission parameters.

Non-existent=/=common

That explains why my perception is off, I weigh more like 140

12 packs were pretty much the default packaging.

I personally haven't seen people fuck up their health long term from few bad parties where they drink water and pass out puking over themselves, I guess we live in vastly different places.

For the nose bleeds occuring from 0G

I literally just entered your search terms and literally clicked search and, literally, I mean it, not figuratively, literally it responded:

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I literally just copy/pasted that response here because I literally knew you are making shit up, you lying propagandist.

Lying. Propagandist. Go back to handing out Chick tracts to people who toss them in the recycling bin.

Take your pills

In case you aren't a troll or schizo, you can start here: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8391842/

No, I've seen your complete lies and lack of evidence. Go back to rocking by yourself, I ain't biting no more.

Yeah it’s a lot like the Russian pencil/ vs space pen meme at this point. (Spoiler, Russia ended up using space pens from Fischer too)

I dislike the engineers have no common sense trope, as it’s another instance of sowing distrust in experts that’s been going on since the late 70s.