If you think the USSR was so egalitarian, explain to me why only the USA has killed both men and women with cost cutting measures in a rushed shuttle program

Some gross shit that invades my brain again whenever people bring up sexism in the US during the space race:

Wernher von Braun, asked about female astronauts in the sixties, had joked that the men in charge were “reserving 110 pounds of payload for recreational equipment.”

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/05/19/a-brief-history-of-spacefarers/

Wonder what that guy’s deal was?

[von Braun] became a member of the Nazi Party and then the Allgemeine SS to support his rocket work. He led the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany, and later of rocket and space technology in the US.

Oh.