"Mercury 13" (2018) is a documentary film directed by David Sington and Heather Walsh. The film explores the story of the "Mercury 13," a group of American women who, despite undergoing rigorous physical and psychological testing, were denied the opportunity to become astronauts in the early 1960s.During the same period when NASA's Mercury 7 astronauts were undergoing training, these 13 remarkable women, including Jerrie Cobb, Wally Funk, and others, proved that they had the right stuff to becom