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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Gorgeous
LOL He fits all
You got that right.
Bump-de-bump-de-bump.
Seven in ONE! Woo Hoo!
The real question is who will be the first trans-African hunchbacked, one legged albino trisexual furbie that identifies as a fish, on the moon?
+1
Paging Fritz Lang...
Those two sentences, taken together, state that the Artemis program intends to change the sex of at least one of the 12 who have walked on the moon. They’re not referring to future moonwalkers at all.
Stupid indeed.
Five’ll get you ten...it’s a blind tranny woman...of colour...in a wheelchair...wearing a hijab.
That rapper died a few months ago. He’s not going to the moon any time soon.
The Big C got him already...I didn’t know that.
RIP Bushwick Bill of Geto Boys fame
Well, the menses will be rather epic...
Naw, they’ll just get in sync with the lunar orbit,
if they aren’t already. ;)
And will it be her “time of the month?”
The question should be: why is this even important?
I could name several in congress that should go now!!! Send them back if you will!!!
Valentina Tereshkova, the first female cosmonaut, had quite a career in the Soviet space program, retired as a major general, and currently serves in the Russian Duma.
An accomplished woman in her own right and not a diversity choice.
Ha, ha. That’s MY cartoon which has now come back to me. I didn’t draw it. There was something else there in place of “Alice Kramden”. And I can’t remember if I found clipart of a woman or if I crudely drew her. Either way, I rotated her around a bit to look like she’s lying there. I covered up the original caption and made my own. I think I airbrushed out the signature of the original cartoonist so that he/she didn’t get into trouble and then I sent it to Pookie via FreeRepublic a few years ago and she(?) included it with her other weekly cartoons
I think it’s funnier than hell, if I do say so myself.
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