It’s that time where we take our wonderful panelists and pit them against each other in a battle of wits, competing for a prize beyond price: the Naked Scientists big brain of the week award. The month of March marks women in history month, so that’s our theme…
Chris - Our teams are Kanta and Rob team one, Colin and Lou team two. You are allowed to confer, but you mustn't try to put off the opposition. There's no naughty tactics allowed here. Question one, this is for team one, Kanta and Rob, as of November 2021 to the nearest 10, how many female astronauts have undertaken space flight? Is it A) 250 B) 100 or C) 50? What do you think?
Kanta - Hmm. I'm guessing it's not more than 50. Probably.
Rob - Yeah, I would agree on that.
Chris - Going 50?
Rob - Yep.
Chris - Quite right. There've been 502 men and 50 women. So far the longest space flight yet was a whopping nine hours.
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