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
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]
