NASA is a very safety conscious organization. So they want to overestimate everything and include way more than they need. So when she said a couple per day you can round that to 5 for safety, then considering it’s a 6 day mission they want to include triple the amount of needed supplies which means 18 days worth. 18*5=90 which is pretty close to 100 so let’s round up again. Plus tampons are a useful first aid tool, especially in zero gravity. You shove some into an open wound and it’ll prevent blood from spilling all over the very sensitive equipment. Does a woman need 100 tampons for 6 days? Of course not, but she wasn’t going to spend a week in the mountains, she was going to space, so the safety precautions were much more stringent
Good comment overall, but tampons should not be used instead of gauze for open wounds. They don’t have nearly enough packing capacity to actually stop the bleeding. They only soak up the blood while the wound stays open and dangerous
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NASA is a very safety conscious organization. So they want to overestimate everything and include way more than they need. So when she said a couple per day you can round that to 5 for safety, then considering it’s a 6 day mission they want to include triple the amount of needed supplies which means 18 days worth. 18*5=90 which is pretty close to 100 so let’s round up again. Plus tampons are a useful first aid tool, especially in zero gravity. You shove some into an open wound and it’ll prevent blood from spilling all over the very sensitive equipment. Does a woman need 100 tampons for 6 days? Of course not, but she wasn’t going to spend a week in the mountains, she was going to space, so the safety precautions were much more stringent
With those astronauts going to the ISS for a week and ending up being there for 9 months, packing too much was the right thing to do.
They also don’t want to be caught unprepared if it turned out that microgravity messed with menstruation, and made it worse than it would be on earth.
On top of all that, they didn’t even send that many, they simply asked her if it was reasonable. She said to half it.
I’ve had enough shit go wrong that I’d probably take that as a jinx and double it.
“I’m not gonna need this thing” / every person who will desperately need thing tomorrow
Good comment overall, but tampons should not be used instead of gauze for open wounds. They don’t have nearly enough packing capacity to actually stop the bleeding. They only soak up the blood while the wound stays open and dangerous
it’s probably US way of thinking, they expect bullet wounds
HOW MUCH SHE PLANNING ON BLEEDIN UP THARR?!!