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Mercury 13 (film)

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Mercury 13
The poster for the film shows a rocket traveling through space, leaving a trail of brightly colored smoke in its wake.
Directed by
Produced by
  • David Sington
  • Heather Walsh
  • Trevor Birney
  • Brendan Byrne
  • Geraldine Creed
CinematographyNickolas Dylan Rossi
Edited by
  • David Fairhead
  • Paul Holland
Music byPhilip Sheppard
Production
company
Distributed byNetflix

Mercury 13 is a 2018 documentary film about the Mercury 13, thirteen American woman pilots who in 1960 took and passed the same tests given the previous year to the Mercury 7, the astronauts selected by NASA for Project Mercury.

Critical reception

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The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes assigned the film an approval rating of 100% based on 24 reviews, with an average rating of 7.4/10. The site's consensus reads: "Mercury 13 offers yet another sobering example of how institutionalized sexism has thwarted countless dreams -- and held nations back from their full potential."[1]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Mercury 13 (2018)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved October 10, 2021.
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