In OTL, the FLATS (Fellow Lady Astronaut Trainees) were a group of female pilots tested by the Lovelace Institute to see if they could qualify as astronauts. Most of them did, but NASA simply refused to talk about their acceptance, so they never became astronauts. How could we have the FLATs become part of the manned spaceflight program? The only two ways I can see this happening is that either Janey Hart uses her political connections to somehow get the FLATs into NASA (may be slightly ASB) or the Soviets make a concerted push to send up more female cosmonauts. What do you think? Bonus points if the U.S sends up a female astronaut before the Soviets do.