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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Why?
I can't imagine a stupider sentence, actually.
woman then black, then queer, then muslim, ...
Baraq is available.
“Houston, we’ve had a problem”
“Copy that, what’s up?”
“I think you know what it is.”
“What!? Say again, over?”
“I’m not going to explain this. If you don’t know what the problem is, there isn’t any point to this conversation.”
......
Rocket Ralph propulsion system.
The issue is never the issue, not with leftism.
America is not really a nation anymore. No budget. No borders, can’t control wide swaths of the countryside.... Corruption rife at the highest levels. Etc.
Sounds pretty third world banana republic to me.
You ain’t Tom Cullen, laws no, not Tom.
Jose Jimenez.
I agree.
Are there kitchens on the moon?
If we can get a transgender male to female black lesbian Muslim on the moon can we just all say “scoreboard” and be done with it?
Brave ass kicker = woman
Computer genius = Black guy
Nuclear physicist = fag
Villain = White male
Not that you know of.
The internet is a mystery.
A lovely woman, as was her sister.
Might I suggest Hillary Clinton? In fact I think she should be the very first human settler. That way if there are moon creatures she can be the one to be blamed as being the colonist who stole the land of these moon creatures.
It was inevitable, yannow. ;)
Not to mention a Lisa Nowak type going all Jason X on the crew members...
I vote we send AOC there in the nose cone of a V2 rocket.
M-O-O-N that spells Tom Cullen.
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