Earn your place, we need a fiirst Muslim on Mars as badly as we need the first case of Syphlis on Mars. Want to make the trip, make yourself worthy and compete like everyone else.
That will make Americans more aware of the unconscious sexism of our space program.
Of course space itself is patriarchal--7 of the 9 planets have male names, all except Venus and Earth (Terra).
But if you count any object orbiting the sun which is more than 700 miles in diameter as a planet, then there are 10, because then Eris would be a planet (it is thought to have a diameter of 925 miles, so it is larger than Pluto). In that case 3 of the 10 planets would have female names. 30%--almost as high as the proportion of Supreme Court justices who have female names.
Any muslims volunteering to go to Mars, we should send them immediately.
Be sure to do a careful SCREENING before she gets on the spaceship.
Just kidding. If she earns her place, more power to her.
Their training includes exhaustive research by watching reruns of The Flintstones.
SpaceX might be surprised to hear Falcon 9 is not their experiment.
It would be as good as a vacation on Venus (allusion, see Cyril Kornbluth, “The Marching Morons” short story free at Project Gutenberg).
Not if you are driving because YOU CANNOT!
This must be part of 0bama’s Muslim outreach program @ NASA.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/flashback-obama-turns-nasa-muslim-outreach-program
I watched the National Geographic series on Mars.
While the intent seems to be a propaganda piece to get international funding for the boondoggle, the sole effect on me was to get to kiss the ground of Earth and hope I never see that awful planet.
It is a death trap—any astronaut who goes there is unqualified because they are bats__t crazy.