Apparently someone did, and then the response was that tampons are low enough weight that the packaging to send them was the majority of the weight, even when sending 100, so they sent 100.

They also developed a zero-g makeup kit because they thought that female astronauts would want that. It had eyeliner, lip gloss, foundation, and blush. All specially selected to not generate dust.

The makeup kit never actually flew, likely because someone asked an actual woman if she would ever want that shit in space.

They did ask. The source for the claim is Sally Ride talking about the time NASA asked if 100 sounds like the right number.

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They did. That's why they didn't send that many. It's not like it took them a long time to figure what the worst case number would be that fit in the budget.