Posted on 08/02/2019 12:47:13 PM PDT by simpson96
Of the 12 people who have walked on the moon, zero have been women. NASA's Artemis program aims to change that by landing the first woman on the moon.
"I have a daughter. She is 11 years old, and I want her to see herself in the same position that our current, very diverse astronaut corps currently sees itself, having the opportunity to go to the moon," NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said in an agency town hall May 14. "In the 1960s, young ladies didn't have the opportunity to see themselves in that role. Today they do, and I think this is a very exciting opportunity."
NASA hopes that landing a woman on the moon may inspire new generations to dream big and work hard by providing representation for young girls. To date, only 64 of the 566 people who have flown to space have been women.
With the ambitious goal to launch this lunar mission by 2024, people have started to speculate about who might be the first woman to walk on the moon. Of the 38 active astronauts in NASA's astronaut corps, 12 are women, and another five are in the class that will wrap up astronaut training this year, for a total of 17 potential moonwalkers.
Bridenstine has said that the first woman to walk on the moon will be someone already in the astronaut corps and someone who has already worked aboard the International Space Station. Of the 12 women currently on active spaceflight duty, not all of them have flown to the space station yet.
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Who’s to say they were men?
How dare these people apply their gender stereotypes to others!
Any guy willing to self-identify as a chick.
Well hell, I will go.
I am a lesbian trapped in a man’s body.
LOL!
Nah, not edgy enough. A pansexual, transgendered, hermaphrodite, on the other hand...
Since women are so much better in STEM subjects, and remaining calm...
Yeah, cuz THAT’S what’s important about the accomplishment. Not that humanity put a human on the moon, but that it was the RIGHT human, according to the political whim of the day.
“I have a daughter. She is 11 years old, and I want her to see herself in the same position that our current, very diverse astronaut corps currently sees itself, having the opportunity to go to the moon,” NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said in an agency town hall May 14.”
Bridenstine needs to be canned.
Damn you...
I was late to the thread.
GMTA
I am a lesbian trapped in a man’s body.
Yes, but are you a lesbian thespian gymnastic midget?
Is that what all this talk about going back to the moon is about?
Putting a woman on there?
Seems like a country that can’t even secure its borders should have more to worry about than another women’s “issue”.
(and I’m a girl)
ROTFL! That was exactly what I was thinking.
As you say...
+1000
Please... let be be a trans!
Well it is that way in the movies.
The last couple of space movies I saw had women commanders.
Therefore, it is so.
Exactly, woman then black, then queer, then muslim, then what ever they think of.
I’m sick of their crap. Liberals want the world to be one, but keep us Americans in groups.
No, sorry didn’t get that far.
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