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How many tampons do you think an average woman needs for one period? Keep in mind as well, that the cost for cargo on the Space Shuttle was $14,186 per kilogram ($6,435 per pound) in 2010 dollars or $21,016 per kilogram ($9,533) today.
I'm not suggesting they haul up extra cargo containers worth of stuff and payload does have to be carefully calculated.
100 tampons would be close to $5,000 to haul up there, and I bet they would have taken that out of her budget for personal effects. It would be like taking enough toothpaste for 5 months. There's a difference between an abundance of caution and plain old excess.
Edit: I should add, that's the weight/cost for applicator-less tampons. I could absolutely see the argument that applicators would be even more useful in a zero-g environment. They would probably be around 10g total at that point, or even more, so that would push the total weight to a full kilo or more.
so like one standard tube instead of a tiny travel tube?
Yeah and if they were stranded for months like a recent crew wouldnt it be better to be on the side of excess instead? Granted 100 is still excessive none the less but now they have them there for a while for other women on missions no? And due to inflation it would have only been more expensive to send more at a later time right so in this mentality it makes sense to me.