Two Gen Z aerospace engineers will conduct the first menstrual flow studies in microgravity

Apparently, getting into orbit is far less mysterious than the female body. In 1983, as Sally Ride prepared to become the first American woman to head to space, an all-male cadre of engineers helping her prep famously asked her if 100 tampons would cover a six-day shuttle mission. Some 40 years on, NASA is considerably more hip to women, but little has progressed in menstrual studies in space. The physicist and astronautical engineer Manju Bangalore, 28, is hoping to change that next year, when…