"The purge of DEI language from US federal websites has claimed another victim. This time, it is NASA's pledge to land the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon as part of the Artemis program."
I have some sympathy with that one. NASA should be aiming to land the most qualified and scientifically relevant astronauts. Colour and gender are irrelevant
I have zero sympathy with it; that's the sort of thinking that leads to everyone involved being male and white, as it was in the sixties. No woman or black man has been to the Moon, let alone landed on it. The Russian space program launched Valentina Tereshkova into space as a PR coup, then launched no other woman for 19 years. The Russian cosmonaut corps has 23 men and 1 woman, who is apparently not expected to fly into space again.
The amount of pushback in NASA and the astronaut corps *against* female astronauts in the sixties and seventies was quite amazing. Something that was fight against by Lieutenant Uhura, of all people.
"The purge of DEI language from US federal websites has claimed another victim. This time, it is NASA's pledge to land the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon as part of the Artemis program."
I have some sympathy with that one. NASA should be aiming to land the most qualified and scientifically relevant astronauts. Colour and gender are irrelevant
I have zero sympathy with it; that's the sort of thinking that leads to everyone involved being male and white, as it was in the sixties. No woman or black man has been to the Moon, let alone landed on it. The Russian space program launched Valentina Tereshkova into space as a PR coup, then launched no other woman for 19 years. The Russian cosmonaut corps has 23 men and 1 woman, who is apparently not expected to fly into space again.
The amount of pushback in NASA and the astronaut corps *against* female astronauts in the sixties and seventies was quite amazing. Something that was fight against by Lieutenant Uhura, of all people.
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Applying social policy like it still is, well into the 2020s, is one of the key things driving political polarisation in today's world.