TIL that Svetlana Savitskaya, the second woman in space, arrived at Mir (modular space station) in 1982, where she was greeted with an apron as a welcome present, and jokingly told to get to work in the kitchen by her fellow cosmonauts.
TIL that Svetlana Savitskaya, the second woman in space, arrived at Mir (modular space station) in 1982, where she was greeted with an apron as a welcome present, and jokingly told to get to work in the kitchen by her fellow cosmonauts.
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:
and there’s an '82 NYT article mentioning it here