Hi there. You’re posting quite a lot of content to this sub, which by itself is good, but the fact that you’re not proofreading your titles just makes it look like you’re spamming the sub for other intentions.

Would you please put some effort into making more legible titles? I’m going to remove any incomplete titles moving forward.

“She promptly spaced one of them to assert her dominance. No further jokes appear to be made on record.”

I don’t know that it was ‘jokingly’

It changes nothing to the thematic, but Mir was launched in 1986. The Soviet space station in 1982 was Salyut 7.

another female politician that resembles lewis capaldi

While I do not doubt this happening, nor it being sexist at its core, I find no mention of it on the linked wikipedia article.

EDIT: Ah, it actually links to a now-defunct british spacecentre article in the original TIL with the following quote:

When Svetlana arrived the space station, she was reportedly handed an apron from her male crewmates and jokingly told to get to work in the kitchen. But she’s also described in fond terms the flowers she received upon arrival: “They gallantly presented me with flowers they had grown in orbit and those plain flowers in a transparent box were the dearest present to me. We hugged each other, kissed each other, in a word, our meeting was the usual meeting of friends who had not met for a long time.” After this initial meeting she was quickly able to establish a working, professional relationship with her crew.

and there’s an '82 NYT article mentioning it here

Thanks, I hate it